Wednesday, October 17, 2007

google.com.cn

What’s the difference between you search the same thing on web page www.google.com and www.google.com.cn? Cn stands for China, so sometimes at the bottom of www.google.com.cn, you will find something like: "据当地法律法规和政策,部分搜索结果未予显示。(According to local law and policy, part of searching results will not show on the page.)"This is an example of the censorship of internet. It examines the degree of freedom we actually own over internet. Internet is not free all the time. I feel it’s hard to define whether the censorship is good or bad.Google as an American company only follows the US laws and polices, what will happen? In fact, “it is not technically just China that does this. Google has been asked and obliged many countries that certain words have altered search responses.”

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