China blacklists Google as purveyor of porn
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Google is among web sites blacklisted by China because they, “provide and spread pornographic or obscene contents”.
Baidu, China’s ‘Google,’ is also named, as are major local portals such as Sina, Sohu and Netease.
“This marks a month-long nationwide campaign launched by the Information Office of the State Council, Ministry of Public Security and other four central government departments to clean up the online environment,” says China state news agency Xinhua.
“Those websites were accused of either providing links to pornographic websites or containing porn pictures and failed to take them down after being notified by China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center(CIIRC),” it says, going on »»»
Online porn and obscene contents are against China’s social morals and in violation of the Chinese law, which bring negative influences on the public, especially the young, Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the State Council Information Office, told a national teleconference Monday on the government move.
“The government will continue to expose, punish or even shut down those infamous websites that refuse to correct their wrongdoing,” the meeting was told. “Immediate action is needed to purify the internet environment.”
Google in Chinese has provided “a large number of links to porn websites” in its searching results for web pages and images and it did not take any effective measures after receiving notice from the CIIRC, the CIIRC said.
Google China PR person Cui Jin, “told Xinhua that providing website links does not mean Google is intentional in spreading inappropriate information,” adds the story.
Xinhua – China begins month-long crackdown on web porn, January 6, 2009
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January 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
“Google China PR person Cui Jin, “told Xinhua that providing website links does not mean Google is intentional in spreading inappropriate information,” adds the story.”
coming from a country that knows all about inappropriate information..
Reality, FAIL.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Google is the number 1 source for finding porn.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:27 am
There’s a movement in China that’s bypassing any censors thrown up. They have gov. so confused and so pissed off that there are orders to arrest them, seize their tools or even shoot them on sight.
I have friends in China and some of them can see everything we do and more.
They tell me that China took over from US in space race and is highly cooperating with US military to put satellites in space pointing out into space. India, Japan, Britain and others are in on it too. They are trying to say “to prevent a threat from outside”. So what’s out there that’s supposedly so threatening? Ultra secret P2P tech maybe, how about millions of porn sites. Oh I know, Superman is coming and they doing to stop him
But in reality, what are they hiding or what kind of a game are they playing? Maybe, just maybe Dr. Greer is correct in saying the elitists are trying to pass off another 9/11 to gain further control of our rights and freedoms.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Interesting post free1. I bet Dr. Greer is on to something. If he is “disappeared” we’ll know for sure.
As for China censoring Google; if censorship was a funny thing then this would be phukkin HILARIOUS!….couldn’t happen to nicer folks! ]:)