Google China Uncensors Tiananmen Square Info
Big trouble in big China over Google's censorship adherence.
Google's been talking about it for months now, and this week the rumblings grew louder that the Internet search giant plans to cease censorship of results for users of Google.cn in China.
Those plans may have been put into action earlier than anticipated, as news agencies are reporting that certain previously censored results are now freely displayed on Google's China site.
Specifically, results relating to the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements are now displayed for Google.cn users in China, reports MSNBC. These topics are currently under strict control by the Chinese government.
Even when using more general search times such as "Tank Man" in Chinese, Google still returned a result showing the iconic image from the June 4, 1989 protest. Google.cn also returned the same image result when searching for just "June 4," as well as giving uncensored information when searching for "Tiananmen Square massacre."
While Google made indication this week that it was almost certain that it would be uncensoring search results and/or pulling operations out of China, the company denies that it has changed anything yet.
"We have not changed our operations in China," said Google spokesman Scott Rubin.
Expect more updates soon.
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It's about time.
This will be interesting to see unfold!
Hooray for freedom of speech!
Bad-ass.
It's hilarious to see a Company like google pressing the buttons of the bigger countries in the world.
It's all fun and games until a dozen Chinese teenagers are executed for crimes against the state.
This is great news - but everything the Central Party does is done deliberately and always for a reason, and since we all know that they are not about to lift the curtain of propaganda, false-history and censorship, I scratch my head and wonder what they have up their sleeves. We shall see...
I still think the guy who had the guts to stand in front of tanks is epic.
China will force all DNS queries for Google to redirect to another search engine now.
Go google!
you cant help but smile
Bad-ass.It's hilarious to see a Company like google pressing the buttons of the bigger countries in the world.
It won't be funny when they stomp a new mudhole in them.
China just got told haha
"We have not changed our operations in China"
It's Beijing Bob!
One word: PWNED!
Now we´re going to know how bad ass Google is.
The funny thing is, for all the publicity around Google pulling out of China, they complied (without any argument) with a whimsical request by the Australian Human Rights Commission to remove search results for an Encyclopedia Dramatica page.
Can a country declare war on a company? We will soon find out!
It's great that the executives safely here in the states found the courage to do something like this. Not so great for the sad sap Google employees in China that will feel any wrath the Chinese government wants to dish out. Likely about the time the Google brass are teeing off at the country club, some poor schmuck Chinese office workers will get tossed in a cell for their "crimes" against the state.
It seems that all those scenarios in games we play, where "companies" run the world with their private armies etc is becoming reality!
on another issue, it is about time China becomes a more relaxed country. They will still be powerful and will even look better in the eyes of everybody in the world.
What's going to happen? Most likely Google gets blocked in China, Bing moves in, plays nice and dominates that billion-people market.
Now they just need to give a Chinese response "It is our policy to follow the laws of China" seeing that it seems someone else just hacked Google's system to take down these filters. Good for you Google!
"It won't be funny when they stomp a new mudhole in them."
Google made a stand, just like the guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square. In the entire history of humanity there always has come a time when the people have stood up against a more powerful tyrant government for what they believe in, even if it means certain punishment\death. Sometimes you have to decide when it is time to fight or flee, but just don't flee too often, or the government will lose it's fear of you. Believe me, those tyrant 'leaders' hidden in their guarded palaces wherever they are, are wimps, absolute wimps. Their strength comes from the sense of security they feel from all those dumb enough to swear their lives to protect them, or who blindly follow their commands. If enough people rally against those leaders, you will see THEM flee. It's all written in history, every bit of it. What is happening now happened a hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, three hundred years ago... Are YOU man enough to fight, or did you also lose your balls in this recession, when your company outsourced your job to China?
In China, Bing waves to Google: "I will miss you".
The Chinese govt is probably going to say what they always say. "Google has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and caused great damage to it's relationship." this is a thing the Chinese govt always says when things don't go their way. I am expecting something like this if they are going to respond to Google's actions.
10 to 1 Google will shortly announce that their servers were hacked by someone at a Chinese University, which caused the results to start suddenly appearing. I will LMAO.
Not even the government, some people still think this kind of information shouldn't distribute freely. I dun know what is the percentage, but was told couple years ago, 70~80% is still not well educated and do not understand what is right or wrong. Just like a bunch of drunk people doing stupid things without knowing what they are actually doing.
Hope there wouldn't be riot or missing people.
People, that picture isn't google.cn, it is google.com (well probably accessed from within China). It has always been that. I had even tried with a remote computer in China. When accessing google.com in China, those results have always been there. Not something new...
well i guess China is going to become even more militant with the internet. Or maybe Chinese citizens will read about this formerly censored info and try and get more freedoms
www.google.cn, the results are still censored there
If this is indeed the case, then I guess the Google execs who made the decision really feel very secure in their safe haven within the USA. Pity the poor Google employees in China though who will feel the brunt of the dragon's wrath.
Holy crap this is big news. My Prediction: China is going to send in their ninjas. Google pirates will most likely have to jump ship. Oh well, guess I'm just going to have to wait to find out...