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China media accuse Google of violating promises

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What Chinese laws are they talking about? Censorship of the truth laws? Criticism of the Chinese government laws? News about human right and torture attrocities toward the Chinese people laws? Is China actually going to make Google be an accessory to such censorships?

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I'd say this is an example of the pot calling the kettle black, but China's violation of promises and rights make google look bone-China white!

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Their is no shame in lying to a liar China, and those who bury the truth are liars just the same. Google can break all the promises with you it wants and remain honorable.

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This (repression of debate and information) is why China's economic boom will not last long. An entrepreneurial atmosphere relies on dissension and debate; two things China's government will never allow. When experts begin debating the reasons for China's sudden economic drop in a few year, someone will inevitably point back to this day.

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It's probably pretty interesting to read these releases in their native language. I wonder how China has to word their arguments to get people to forget that this is all about China censoring the internet.

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Good point SuperLib. The Japan Times today reported that one reason for the censorship was pornography. Apparently when one government offical typed "son" in the Google search engine, he received a website showing incest between mothers and sons.

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"Apparently when one government offical typed "son" in the Google search engine, he received a website showing incest between mothers and sons."

No kidding, when what China wants 'son' to represent is a young boy carrying nothing but an anvil and hammer and bearing it for all the 5 stars on the Chinese flag while he suffers NOTHING at all. Censorship is wrong, bottom line, as is the Chinese government going against its own laws to hack into the accounts of pro-activists for information.

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Google, BANZAI!! At least somebody on this Earth still can view human right more important than profit.

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Many criticize Chinese law based on your own perspectives in life. Most of you are well educated professionals. China is 60-70% populated by peasants who live very simple lives and are easily swayed by propaganda - easily stirred up. China's laws - while somewhat authoritarian have progressed dramatically and continue to evolve as the society as a whole evolves. Freedom comes with responsibility. Does the world REALLY want China to go free market - undercutting mega-companies such as Motorola, Cisco, Ford, etc? China's economy has the power to destroy any commercial firm they target. Do we really want 1.4 billion people watching porn and then unleashing the pervs on societies across the world?

Google wants to withdraw because it doesn't want to obey Chinese law after operating in the country legally for 4 years. Is censorship the issue? Hacking? Google sounds more like a spoiled brat who's taking their game ball home because they don't like the rules. Google is hiding something (conspiracy theorists) as the issues on the table and their withdrawal from a lucrative market don't make sense.

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What scares me is stuff like this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/03/21/china.google.rhetoric/index.html?hpt=Sbin

"Then, as now, the China state media reacted by suggesting Google is acting as a foreign policy arm of the U.S. government. The China Daily Sunday editorial said: "Google's relations with the U.S. government cannot be deeper. US media has said Google was the fourth-largest supporter of Barack Obama in his election campaign. Four of the company's former executives including Sumit Agarwal, who was the product manager for Google Mobile team and is currently deputy assistant secretary of defense, are now serving the US government."

You kind of get the feeling that they're used to talking to their own people where they can pretty much say whatever they want and have everyone nod. The problem is that sometimes they have to dialogue with foreign people and governments and it seems they expect us to react the same way their people do. It just gives me the feeling that they're living about 20 years in the past.

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“We’re uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues,”

I bet that had people rolling about on the floor laughing, well those outside anyway.

seaforte03 at 08:16 PM JST - 23rd March

“Does the world REALLY want China to go free market - undercutting mega-companies such as Motorola, Cisco, Ford, etc? China's economy has the power to destroy any commercial firm they target.”

All the world needs do is introduce quality control and nothing coming out of China will be bought anywhere. Mass production alone is nothing, people still like the idea of a product that lasts for more than a week or two. Like many people today I read the labels, even the ones that sellers try to hide and if it says “made in China” I simply do not buy.

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"Foreign companies must abide by Chinese laws and regulations when they operate in China.”

The unelected Chinese dictatorship is acting unconstitutionally by imposing censorship. Freedoms supposedly granted by the Chinese constitution are routinely ignored by the Chinese regime. This is a government that won't abide by its own laws, yet they have the cheek to complain about foreign companies.

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read the other news site, they said

Google pulled out of China today after discovering that the Chinese government had been censoring the search results of its world-famous search engine. "When you typed 'human rights' you'd get 'Did you mean hunan rice?'" said Google spokesperson Tracy Klugian. "For us that, was the last straw."

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if you Googled 'wanton censorship' in China, you'd get, 'Did you mean wonton sesame shrimp?

that was funny, that tell how much the communist government give to the level of intelligence of average Chinese in china.

that is a real insulting from the communist government to its own citizen right there!

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