It took Chinese officials less than two hours to react on Google’s announcement to stop censoring their services in China. Google, two hours before the response, started to redirect their China mainland traffic to their Hong Kong domain serving unfiltered information and services to Chinese users. The official in charge of the Internet bureau under [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google China Service Availability
Google today announced that they stopped censoring Google services in China, something that many Internet users did not believe they would be doing even though they made it very clear that it was a possibility. As of today Google Search, Google News and Google Images search are delivering censor free search results to Chinese people. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google To Stop Self-Censoring Search In China [Google, Censorship]
Google’s Chinese search engine was launched in January 2006. Google agreed back then to censor some of the results which in their opinion was better than not offering access to the search engine at all in China. Google’s stance on the issue has changed lately with the uncovering of a targeted attack on the infrastructure [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Free Legal Music Downloads: In China
Downloading music is illegal, right? That’s what the Music Industry is telling us all the time. They sue people who download music and do everything in their might to keep up the image that music downloading is a major crime.This is however apparently not true in China where Google struck a deal with major players [...]
