What the western world sees:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
What the Chinese see:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
(These may be the same – depends on the country you are in.
In France at least they are redirecting .cn to .com.)
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The Issue, and What You Can Do
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“ ... not just for the sake of the people of China,
but for the sake of the internet as a safe space for
free speech across the world.”
- -- Becky Hogge
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- Break up with Google on Valentine's Day
- [http://noluv4google.com/modinput4.php?modin=61]
- No Luv 4 Google Day of Action - February 14
- [http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org]
- TibetWillBeFree at BlogSpot
- A lot of good information, plus:
- An excellent counter-argument to Google's rationale is about halfway down the page: "Google Tries to Defend Itself, Fails", by Philo on January 29. (Saves me writing the rebuttal i was thinking of — i can't say it any better.)
- [http://tibetwillbefree.blogspot.com/]
Please tell me — what do you think?
Alternative Search Engines
- Mamma.com
- Good list at Students for a Free Tibet site
- http://studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=800
How to remove google search from firefox
My Correspondence with Google about this issue
What Google says
- Google's corporate philosophy
- http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
- Number 6: “You can make money without doing evil”
- Google's public privacy policy
- Summary for the masses, with link to the full policy
- I can't find any of the "Break up with Google" websites
- when i search on Google (as of 2 February 2006). Is Google censoring results?
- "Don't be Evil" on Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_Evil
News and comment about Google in China
- Google vs. China vs. Evil
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060130/tc_zd/170311
- John Dvorak, 30 January 2006
- James' comment: i think the point is not Google's motto, but that people are being tortured and dying in China, Tibet and Inner Mongolia as a result of these actions by Google and other western companies.
- Google-watch: Big Brother
- http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
- Some grown-up questions for Google
- http://www.opendemocracy.net/media/google_3230.jsp
- by Becky Hogge, 1 February 2006
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Very well-written and thoughtful examination of Google's actions.
“What does Google mean when it says "don’t be evil"? The company’s expansion in China will reveal whether it is on the side of citizen or state.” - James' comment: Actually at first i couldn't get to this one – so slow it wouldn't load. too much traffic? blocked by google network magic? ... by China? ... am i getting paranoid? ...
- Please don't be evil, Google
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http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/01/31/66883/
Minnesota Daily (US), 31 January 2006 - “Google is walking a slippery slope and going back on its promises.”
- Don't be Evil, Google
- http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/ hc-google0131.artjan31,0,1260388.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped
- Frida Ghitis, 31 January 2006
- Google, Microsoft Say No To US Congressional Briefing On Chinese Censorship
- http://www.evilornot.info/browse/show/1245
- Evil: Google goes over to the dark side
- http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2004/07/02/ evil_google_goes_over_to_the_dark_side.html
- About Google's new privacy policy
- Evil Google? Can the Search Engine Be Moral?
- http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-News/Evil-Google/
Other news and comment about Google practices
- And then there were four
- http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
- Analysis of the "four main search engines"; problems with Google's handling of your privacy.
- Google: Evil or Not?
- http://www.evilornot.info/
- Vote on what you think
- The Four Search engines
- http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html