Google Agrees to Censor Results in China

[soulxtc]

<p> The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China's Web suffix &quot;.cn,&quot; on Wednesday. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A Chinese-language version of Google's search engine has previously been available through the company's dot-com address in the United States. By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make its search engine more widely available and easier to use in the world's most populous country. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Because of government barriers set up to suppress information, Google's China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine or encountered lengthy delays in response time. </p>

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[bobhss]

Google fights the US government about search results, but censors China? What gives?

[mountain_rage]

When faced with a new market of billions of users its hard to argue. Without such measures china would have simply said oh well and picked the next guy down the line.

[soulxtc]

Yah but it makes the arguement about PRINCIPLES a moot point it picks and chooses when those principles are to be applied.

Principles shouldnt be conevenient or fiscally prudent.

[SanDiegoKid]

... a trickle of information will slowly build into a raging river.

[Jorge]

God bless america!

[Signa]

to me, it looks like google is just trying to do what they do best, please everyone. but the problem with pleasing everyone is somtimes you step on somone elses toes....

[flyingrhino]

Google's "do no evil" policy has changed to "do business"