Sibel Edmunds Story
Something definitely worth reading is the running news on a whistleblower named Sibel Edmunds over at: Monocular Fish
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- Name: Fred
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Ok... I am officially shutting this blog down!
Understand that in China, you can get ten years at hard labor for reading the wrong website, and Google's decided they don't mind helping catch people, so long as the money's good.
Therefore I am pulling my stuff off of here and going elsewhere. You can still find my stuff at: http://fredsitelive.com/
From a Jonathan Watts story in The Guardian, today:
Google will actively assist the government of China to limit content!
The scale of censorship in China is likely to dwarf anything the company has done before. According to one internet media insider, the main taboos are the three Ts: Tibet, Taiwan and the Tiananmen massacre, and the two Cs: cults such as Falun Gong and criticism of the Communist party. But this list is frequently updated.
In a statement, Google said it had little choice:
It acknowledged that this ran contrary to its corporate ethics, but said a greater good was served by providing information in China.
Local bloggers were already wearily resigned to the change. "What Google are doing is targeting commercial interests and skirting political issues," said one of the country's most prominent, who writes under the name Black Hearted Killer. "That by itself is no cause for criticism, but there is no doubt they are cowards."
Forbidden searches
Words or phrases that can trigger pages to be blocked or removed from search results in China:
Tiananmen Square massacre The killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians by the People's Liberation Army in 1989
Dalai Lama The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, who is denounced as a splittist by the government in Beijing.
Taiwanese independence The nightmare of the Communist party, which has vowed to use force to prevent a breakaway.
Falun Gong:
A banned spiritual movement, thousands of whose members have been imprisoned and in many cases tortured.
Dongzhou:
The village where paramilitary police shot and killed at least 100 protesters last month.
Therefore I am pulling my stuff off of here and going elsewhere. You can still find my stuff at: http://fredsitelive.com/
From a Jonathan Watts story in The Guardian, today:
Google will actively assist the government of China to limit content!
The scale of censorship in China is likely to dwarf anything the company has done before. According to one internet media insider, the main taboos are the three Ts: Tibet, Taiwan and the Tiananmen massacre, and the two Cs: cults such as Falun Gong and criticism of the Communist party. But this list is frequently updated.
In a statement, Google said it had little choice:
It acknowledged that this ran contrary to its corporate ethics, but said a greater good was served by providing information in China.
Local bloggers were already wearily resigned to the change. "What Google are doing is targeting commercial interests and skirting political issues," said one of the country's most prominent, who writes under the name Black Hearted Killer. "That by itself is no cause for criticism, but there is no doubt they are cowards."
Forbidden searches
Words or phrases that can trigger pages to be blocked or removed from search results in China:
Tiananmen Square massacre The killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians by the People's Liberation Army in 1989
Dalai Lama The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, who is denounced as a splittist by the government in Beijing.
Taiwanese independence The nightmare of the Communist party, which has vowed to use force to prevent a breakaway.
Falun Gong:
A banned spiritual movement, thousands of whose members have been imprisoned and in many cases tortured.
Dongzhou:
The village where paramilitary police shot and killed at least 100 protesters last month.
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