Google puts muzzle on itself in China
See this story this morning. Excerpt:
The company motto may be “Don’t be evil,” but Google, like other
Western Internet companies, will adopt self-censorship to build its
business in China, one of the world’s largest potential Internet
markets.
Western Internet companies, will adopt self-censorship to build its
business in China, one of the world’s largest potential Internet
markets.
Related story here.
China closes down influential newspaper
China’s Propaganda Department on Tuesday ordered the closing of Bing
Dian, an influential weekly newspaper that often tackled touchy
political and social subjects, as the authorities stepped up efforts to
curb the spread of information and views the Communist Party considers
unfavorable.
Dian, an influential weekly newspaper that often tackled touchy
political and social subjects, as the authorities stepped up efforts to
curb the spread of information and views the Communist Party considers
unfavorable.
The shutdown came the same day that Google announced that it would
begin steering its Chinese users to www.google.cn, which will restrict
access to content that China’s media monitors consider problematic.
