The news that Google has won a
contract to provide news to Internet users in China is one more example
of the search giant's hypocrisy. It claims not merely to be a
profit-making machine, but a force for good in the world. When it comes
to China, though, it's on the side of censorship, authoritarians,
Communists, and would-be dictators.
Reuters reports that Google has just won a license to provide news
in China. Of course, what China calls "news" and what we call "news"
are entirely separate things. China heavily censors all Internet
content, and has built what's called the Great Firewall around the
country, to try and keep out any information the Communist government
doesn't want people to read.
Reuters recently ran a story
detailing just how extreme censorship is in China, and how effective
the Great Wall is. News is censored, of course, and news stories are
blocked. But it goes far beyond that. The entire Flickr site is
blocked, for example, because photos of the 1989 Tiananmen Square
massacre were posted on it.
Google knows all about the censorship first hand. It already censors
its Chinese search site at the behest of the Communist government.
That's bad enough. But providing heavily censored "news" goes one
step further. By doing it, Google will in essence become a propaganda
arm of the government. But Google has made it clear that's perfectly
fine. All it cares about is its pursuit of the almighty dollar...or
yuan.
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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business ,internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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