Google opens China blog
p2p news / p2pnet: Google has launched a corporate blog in China to, “better communicate the company’s intentions to Chinese-language users”.
This is ironic, to considerably understate the situation. Google is in the middle of a growing scandal centering on its active cooperation with China’s Net censors and today it’s endeavoring to explain to a US congressional human rights committee why it’s being so helpful in building and maintaining sections of the Great Internet Wall of China.
Answering, or trying to answer, the same question at the same hearing are Microsoft, Yahoo and Cisco,
And in a recent development, Dynamic Internet Technology ceo Bill Xia revealed Google is using blacklists to censor some search results in China.
The new GoogleChinaBlog is, “positioned as a bridge for Google’s staff to communicate with netizens on product, technology and culture,” says ChinaTechNews.
Interesting that the blog is .com and not .cn.
“Employees of Google can post their new ideas and happenings in the company on the blog to share with ordinary netizens living in China,” says the story.
Also See:
so helpful – Free speech in China, February 15, 2006
using blacklists – Google China’s internet blacklists, February 6, 2006
ChinaTechNews – Google Launches Chinese Corporate Blog, February 15, 2006
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