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China crisis for Google bosses

By Derek Sooman

On February 20, 2006, 6:01 PM

It’s emerged that Senior Google bosses are getting plagued with complaints in an email campaign organised by opponents of the internet company's relationship with the Chinese government. Recently, Google has provisioned a Chinese version of Google internet search that censors out content from searches that the Chinese government deems unsuitable for its citizens to be exposed to (like searching for information on the Tiananmen massacre, etc).

Students For A Free Tibet, a New York-based organisation campaigning against China's repressive policies, claims that more than 50,000 letters have been sent to Google bosses in recent days protesting at the company's decision to censor searches on its google.cn website in line with Beijing's wishes. Protesters have also staged public 'break-ups' with Google at demonstrations outside many of its offices around the world.

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  1. February 20, 2006 6:10 PM
    DragonMaster said:
    [quote]protesting at the company's decision to censor searches on its google.cn website in line with Beijing's wishes. [/quote]They still can go on other Google sites, no?
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  2. February 21, 2006 6:28 AM
    mentaljedi said:
    that's what i was wondering. But i guess most don't understand any other language but chinese. Time to learn English guys!
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  3. February 21, 2006 12:44 PM
    Nic said:
    Maybe google detects the IP address of incoming requests and filters the results accordingly...
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  4. February 21, 2006 3:17 PM
    DragonMaster said:
    [quote] Maybe google detects the IP address of incoming requests and filters the results accordingly...[/quote]If you use Google.com but every others are not doing this.
    Reply

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