Tag: human_rights

  • Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week. The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems. These four companies have been invited to a U.S. congressional subcommittee hearing on…

  • Google founder defends censorship

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    David Kirkpatrick of Fortune met with Sergey Brin (one of the co-founders of Google) at the World Economic Forum at Davos and asked him about Google’s decision to censor the Internet in China (something I posted about the other day). Sergey’s reasoning for the censorship: We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that…

  • Google censors the Internet

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    Tom Raftery
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    The New York Times published an article yesterday (and I think I heard a reference this morning on Morning Ireland) about Google’s new Google.cn site. According to the article, the new Chinese version of the Google search engine: will not allow users to create personal links with Google e-mail or blog sites, will comply with…