January 20th, 2010

If I were a geeky Google employee I might be excited about the current troubles between Google and China: a free ticket to experiment with all kind of computer hacking that would be off-limits otherwise. If I were a human rights activist I would probably applaud Googles brave step. But if I were a Secretary of State I would be worried.
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Tags: book printing, China, Google, historical parallel, industrial revolution
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January 13th, 2010
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.”
via Official Google Blog: A new approach to China.
Bravo Google!
Tags: China, Google
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