I’m trying to work out the point you’re making.

Do you mean that because they also filter results in the UK or France that this makes it a LESS evil thing to do and that I shouldn’t be concerned about it?

Maybe the government would have filtered it out anyway, but how does that make Google’s behaviour less offensive?

They helped filter out information so they are an ACCESSORY to the repression of information and the restriction of freedoms.

Is it illegal? Probably not. Did they HAVE to do it? I don’t think so and I think it’s more than reasonable to criticize their behaviour for it.

Andrew

they alter searches for france, Uk and other govts as well. s’time they also filter searches in US as per limitiation of First Amendment. It is not upto Google to make laws, they follow laws just like all the rest.

If they don’t follow the law then govts filter it out in any case and make the pages unavailable etc. So it’s not like if google hadn’t buckled people in china would have known more about tinamen square. People wouldn’t have gotten access to the info while google would have been slow for everything else as well. So all i’ve to say to u is grow up!!

Just a side note, your blog could have been banned in China already, since you mentioned the forbidden word (Tianmen Square) here.. =)

6 months ago you couldn’t find sites like infowars.com on google.co.uk, because they were overly critical of the British royalty and government.

It’s a brave new world…

Cheers,

Josip

To derail Baidu.com as the no.1 search engine in China, Google has to do something “evil”. It’s all about gaining market share for them now, which the money will follow on if they succeed.