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**Usogwdkb** · 01-31-2006, 06:15 AM

If you could access the two you would find that the google.com results show protesters and tanks and all the images you might associate with the Tiananmen Square protests.

The .cn site shows what appears to be tourist images.

In answer to h2o, I laud Google's refusal to hand over search data to the US government. It also makes sound sense to be inside the Great Firewall of China, rather than outside chucking bricks.

What upsets me - and prehaps it shouldn't - is that faced with its first difficult moral decision Google took the easy route out. As one blogger said, it's like watching Anekin grow into Darth Vader.

It doesn't suprise me that other comapnies do it. Indeed, most textiles producers have to do it to remain competitive. But for Google, a company that has been brilliantly selling a service based on trust, to do it smacks of short-term profiteering.

01-31-2006, 06:15 AM	#3
Usogwdkb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	If you could access the two you would find that the google.com results show protesters and tanks and all the images you might associate with the Tiananmen Square protests. The .cn site shows what appears to be tourist images. In answer to h2o, I laud Google's refusal to hand over search data to the US government. It also makes sound sense to be inside the Great Firewall of China, rather than outside chucking bricks. What upsets me - and prehaps it shouldn't - is that faced with its first difficult moral decision Google took the easy route out. As one blogger said, it's like watching Anekin grow into Darth Vader. It doesn't suprise me that other comapnies do it. Indeed, most textiles producers have to do it to remain competitive. But for Google, a company that has been brilliantly selling a service based on trust, to do it smacks of short-term profiteering.
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