Google in the service of the Chinese government?
“The news that Google has received a contract for the supply of news for Internet users in China is another example of hypocrisy in the search giant’s actions,” one reader writes in his blog on computerworld.com. Perhaps it is difficult not to agree with him ...
Google is trying to establish itself in the eyes of society, not only as a machine for profit, but also as a conductor of the forces of good all over the world. When it comes to China, you need to understand that you are entering the territory of censorship and despotism.
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As I already reported on my blog, Google recently received a license to provide news content in China. It goes without saying that what is called “news” in China and what we call “news” are completely different things. The Chinese Communist government actively censors all Internet materials and news, and even surrounded China with what is called the Great Firewall, trying to fence ordinary people away from any harmful, according to censorship, information. Anything that does not correspond to communist values or “morality” can be censored or completely blocked.
News is subject to censorship, this is undoubted, and many news will be completely blocked. But censorship in China goes far beyond that. For example, the entire site Flickr.com is blocked because there were published photos of 1989 telling about the events in Tiananmen Square, where the violent suppression of student unrest occurred, and in fact there was a massacre of people.
But Google knows all about censorship in China not by hearsay. You can say first hand. The Chinese search engine site Google has already been censored by the order of the communist government. That in itself is bad enough. However, the broadcast of the "news" in a castrated form, or subjected to strict censorship, takes another step beyond the edge of good and evil. By doing this, in effect, Google can become part of the official propaganda of the Chinese government. But Google made it perfectly normal. All that he thinks about its implementation, all that he cares about, is the size of future profits, the almighty dollar ... or the yuan ...
And what do you think?
Google is trying to establish itself in the eyes of society, not only as a machine for profit, but also as a conductor of the forces of good all over the world. When it comes to China, you need to understand that you are entering the territory of censorship and despotism.
')
As I already reported on my blog, Google recently received a license to provide news content in China. It goes without saying that what is called “news” in China and what we call “news” are completely different things. The Chinese Communist government actively censors all Internet materials and news, and even surrounded China with what is called the Great Firewall, trying to fence ordinary people away from any harmful, according to censorship, information. Anything that does not correspond to communist values or “morality” can be censored or completely blocked.
News is subject to censorship, this is undoubted, and many news will be completely blocked. But censorship in China goes far beyond that. For example, the entire site Flickr.com is blocked because there were published photos of 1989 telling about the events in Tiananmen Square, where the violent suppression of student unrest occurred, and in fact there was a massacre of people.
But Google knows all about censorship in China not by hearsay. You can say first hand. The Chinese search engine site Google has already been censored by the order of the communist government. That in itself is bad enough. However, the broadcast of the "news" in a castrated form, or subjected to strict censorship, takes another step beyond the edge of good and evil. By doing this, in effect, Google can become part of the official propaganda of the Chinese government. But Google made it perfectly normal. All that he thinks about its implementation, all that he cares about, is the size of future profits, the almighty dollar ... or the yuan ...
And what do you think?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11258/
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