You've probably heard about Google releasing a censored version of its search engine in China. Have a look at this example of how it works:

Google.com Image search
Google.cn Image search

f***ing disgusting.

that is all.

pretty funny tho

good job on behalf of the government u gotta admit

umm what Jabroney?
good job? hell no, its a classic example of the self rightous control freaks of those in power in china.
censoring history. censoring everything to be as they want it to appear. how can that be a good job?

it'd be a govt regulation i'd say, google wouldn't have done it off tere own back

where does it end?

I don't blame Google. China is one of the largest countries in the world and to lose that market in regards to usage and clicks would have been terrible for them.

Blame the government, not Google I say

Yes lets all blame Google since media censorship is unique to them *rolls eyes*
http://www.alternet.org/story/12753/
http://john.curtin.edu.au/letters/activities/censorship.html
http://www.ccmep.org/ccmep/american031902.html
Theres probably about I dunno 24 million pages about media censorship on google *wink* alone.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=media+censorship&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

i dont like censorship

Oh man, how can they possibly cover up Tianamen with some pretty pictures and flowers.. just insane.

Hahaha

Man, type in porn and only two pages come up.

LOL

Some interesting slashdot stories on this today:

Bill Gates Defends Google's Censorship In China (yes, BG defending Google)
Search Companies Questioned About Chinese Policy (by US government)
Why Google in China Makes Sense

people take themselves too seriously

This is just another reason for China pissing me off. Tapping the bile out of bears' stomachs pisses me off to.

whos blaming google?
its been the gov 100%

and Crisane ive been saying that for years, makes me wanna go over there and kill all of them bastards, but i havnt finished my Coco Pops yet.

"There was no Tiananmen square issue. We were all on holidays. See? Pretty pictures!"

Oh man that is wrong on so many levels, only 2 pages of porn?
The Tiananmen square issue is serious too!

Yeah quite interesting that they'd break thier motto "do no evil" for the blue sky market in China. That slashdot article has link to Yahoo article about it which was quite an interesting read.

Edit: Damn that link natslvr post on slashdot isn't the one I was talking about. I was refering to this one: Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values

And this Yahoo article


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I wonder how they did this cheaply
image processing is effective for an explicit domain, but with a billion random images forget about it

they must have a million google monkeys populating metadata sheets

Excuse the noobness of this question, but what would stop the chinese people from using say google.com.au or google.com ? Wouldn't it come down to their service providers filtering this sort of thing and banning the use of the site I just mentioned?

My (limited) understanding is, Chinese Internet is heavily regulated. There are no ISPs that allow access to non-sanctioned sites - that is, its not possible for them to get even get to google.com.au.

I could be completely wrong, but that's what I've heard.

ages ago someone set up a .cn-friendly google proxy to get around just this sort of thing

the matrix does not hvae them just yet

c***s

people go on and on about the the evils of the USA but the yellow peril is the real problem.

hmmm the world is a strange place.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aEGFtl9292Is