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Google: Censorship Should Be Trade Barrier
News Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google. Google has been criticised in the past for its own practice of self-censorship in China.
[August 28, 2007, 13:34]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
News Google is not the only US search firm targeted with complaints about censorship in China. Angered by such reports, some US politicians have threatened to pass laws restricting US companies from cooperating with the Chinese government on censorship.
[January 25, 2006, 7:25]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback Censorship and oppression are Chinese exports we can definitely do without, and although Google's actions do not affect us directly here in the UK, I believe it is important for us all to show the Chinese authorities that their standards in this...
[February 2, 2006, 18:43]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback I listened this morning with mounting disbelief to the story on BBC Radio, and nearly choked on Google's disingenuous response that 'to provide no service at all, or one even more crippled than this, would be even worse'.
[January 25, 2006, 11:17]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback "Google becomes part of the Great Firewall of China" is what the title should be.
[January 25, 2006, 14:16]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback "Google joins the coalition of the willing (to censor)" would also do as a title.
[February 3, 2006, 0:12]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback Consumers basically outside China on the whole wont care if Google trades or nto with China so the free market wont sort this out How business should be done with regimes of a more dubious nature should be set at national and international levels...
[January 25, 2006, 11:23]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback Google should be ashamed. It is terribly sad that "democracy" is forced on Iraq with bullets, but nobody wants to bother inducing democracy in China with freedom of information - a much less deadly course of action for the general populace.
[January 25, 2006, 13:43]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
Talkback looking back through chinese history and how they have always treated there people is this really much of a suprise
[March 21, 2006, 10:16]
Photos: Google's Euro Charm Offensive
News Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, was on hand to answer questions about wider strategy, including some hard questioning on the company's stance on censorship. Schmidt cited the example of a TV station in Venezuela that had been banned by the...
[June 21, 2007, 16:12]
US Legislature Suggests China Web Crackdown
News The highly anticipated proposal, created by Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican from the House of Representatives, in response to recent reports about censorship in China by Google, Yahoo and others, also makes it unlawful to filter search...
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
China Bans AltaVista Searches
News Chinese citizens attempting to get around the censorship can find workarounds, however, including through a Google mirror site, at Elgoog, which is not filtered. Barnett said he became aware of minor censorship from China in recent months but the...
[September 10, 2002, 9:43]
Google's Brin Lobbies For Net Neutrality
Talkback What is censorship when it's not censorship? I guess being a big-shot businessman allows you to tell stupid lies: On the one hand this fellow admits that google's Chinese site -- www.google.cn [which you can't access from here] -- does not show...
[June 7, 2006, 21:42]
Shareholders Lay Into Yahoo Boss
News While they blasted him during a question-and-answer session, shareholders followed the recommendations of the board in rejecting proposals calling for Yahoo to link executive pay with the company's financial performance; oppose internet censorship...
[June 13, 2007, 10:53]
The Blogosphere Strikes Back At Censorship
News Indian bloggers are railing against censorship after reports that the Indian Government has instructed Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to blogs on blogspot.com and typepad.com, and to Web sites on GeoCities, as a security measure...
[July 20, 2006, 14:25]
Google Excludes Controversial Sites
News The Harvard report comes as Google is becoming increasingly embroiled in international political disputes over copyright and censorship. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Google Reveals Its 300-year Plan
News Google and Yahoo have received for cooperating with Chinese government censorship efforts. It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt predicted on
[October 10, 2005, 9:15]
Google Keeps Up Porn Probe Battle
News Google's opposition raised eyebrows last month after it stood up to the US government but capitulated to censorship demands from China's ruling Communist Party. Google lashed out at the US Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile...
[February 20, 2006, 8:05]
Google Shares Plunge After Growth Warning
News The company, along with Yahoo and MSN, has been blasted by members of Congress over cooperation with China's censorship policies. Google shares tumbled on Tuesday after the company's chief financial officer admitted that "most of what's left is...
[March 1, 2006, 9:30]
Google Wins Porn Probe Fight
Talkback They already have anti-censorship solutions in place for the people of China and Iran. I'm not sure I see how this is a victory for Google. They are still required to turn over information to the DoJ (although the amount is scaled down) and the...
[March 21, 2006, 15:44]
