As an expat in China, I’m used to living without Youtube, Facebook and Twitter (all are blocked here).
But I hate the thought of losing Google – my homepage and a site I use almost daily.
Plus, Google offers a service here in China that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the World: google.cn/MUSIC (think i -Tunes… only free!)
However, I would GLADLY sacrifice access to Google if it means making a stand against this CONTEMPTUOUS regime!
The Chinese Communist Party FEARS Google (despite being heavily censored) because it provides too much access to information and freedom of thought.
Google has tolerated Chinese censorship until now, but the last straw came when China hackers recently “cyber-attacked” the e-mail acounts of human rights activists.
Now, Google has declared it will no longer practice self-censorship in China and is prepared to lose access to the World’s largest internet market!!!
So……. when will Yahoo! take a similar stand against this bully?!
Back in 2005, Yahoo! helped the Chinese government send dissident, Shi Tao, to prison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Tao (<
Much as I’d hate to lose access to Yahoo! Answers, I would prefer to see Yahoo! redeem itself.
What do you think?
March 2, 2010 at 7:09 pm
china doesn’t have hackers silly, it has communist-supported internet bullies.
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March 2, 2010 at 7:48 pm
You should’ve moved somewhere besides China.
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March 2, 2010 at 8:08 pm
No, yahoo would never want to lose millions of people who use there site just to prove a point.
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March 2, 2010 at 8:43 pm
All those things are blocked in China?
Besides answers, what do you actually use the internet for? Hahah.
Uhh. I actually have no opinion on the situation, I don’t know nearly enough about China or the entire reason behind this whole censorship fiasco (other than perhaps they’re probably afraid of freedom of thought [as mentioned above in your post], whatever, whatever, etc).
Yeah that sounds like a sucky place to live. If I were to give you advice, it would be to go and live somewhere less sucky.
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March 2, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I am hoping that China get more and more fingering
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March 2, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Hi,
I just came to say farewell to Google. I’m Chinese and I used to love Google’s image search function, but now I found out Yahoo does the same thing.
I’ve just made Yahoo my main search engine.
I wish Google best of luck in her future endeavors. We’ve had a good run, but you decided to leave, so we won’t keep you.
PS. Show some class, if Google leaves, just say byebye, why act like a dirty ex-wife and constantly b!tch about things?
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March 2, 2010 at 9:08 pm
China is a SH!T HOLE!
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