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Adam
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« on: January 13, 2010, 10:58:08 AM »
because once you embarass the CN's government, you've pretty much had your decision made for you

Good for Goog, I must say.

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Google has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service.

The world's leading search engine said the decision followed a cyber-attack that it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights activists. It also cited a clampdown on the internet in China over the past year. Its statement raised the prospect of closing Google.cn and potentially its offices in China.
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 06:18:42 PM »
Interesting timing, what with the recent successful lawsuit against Google in China for illegally copying writers' works.
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2010, 05:01:01 PM »
yeah, but I don't believe them leaving is sour grapes over Baidu.  It's about the hacking.  They can't have the CN govt stealing their IP, or more cynically, stealing their customer's content leaving the company open to lawsuit.  I think it's worthy of them to give CN the finger, which make no mistake, they have done.  By implying the CN govt was involved in anyway, and to openly threaten to leave over censorship, which the govt refuses to admit, they have already decided to give up.  Good for them, IMO.  Less gold and viagra spam.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2010, 12:55:47 PM »
the update from Goobrother: your authoritarian tactics conflict with our plans for world leadership

all search and stuff is now open and coming from Hong Kong.  Democratic filtering principles are expected soon to be enacted the CN government.  So that will be about that.
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2010, 06:35:39 PM »
In a show of solidarity, GoDaddy is also pulling out and will no longer *.cn TLDs.
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« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2010, 09:03:59 AM »
At least China still has good taste on its side:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/chinas-kingdom-of-the-dwarves.html
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2010, 05:00:53 PM »
Yeah they are quickly turning into one hand of the country doesn't know what the other hand is doing.  Purely capitalist, purely authoritarian, somewhere's weirdly in the middle.  So "weird" may become the new paradigm for that State.
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2010, 09:22:45 PM »
Quote from: The on March 27, 2010, 09:03:59 AM
At least China still has good taste on its side:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/chinas-kingdom-of-the-dwarves.html

Uhh.. wow.. you know what happened the last time a large group of Dwarves were put together for our entertainment, right? 
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Leanne
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2010, 12:11:30 PM »
Now they're attacking Yahoo!
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/03/31/yahoo-targeted-in-chinese-attacks
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