Um....I'm not 100% sure that this is right ;-)

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Neil Brownlee

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #1

Right...

Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

--
Neil

 

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Erik-Jan Geniets

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #2

Neil Brownlee wrote:
>
> Right...
>
> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>
> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
>
> --
> Neil

I'm not getting a connection to the .cn site. Redirected to .com
instead.
Erik-Jan.

 

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Mother

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #3

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:11:25 +0000 (UTC), "Neil Brownlee"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
>http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>
>Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
>http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

So you haven't been following the long ethical debate about Google
agreeing to heavily censor their content delivery in China, then...


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Erik-Jan Geniets

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #4

Mother wrote:

>
> So you haven't been following the long ethical debate about Google
> agreeing to heavily censor their content delivery in China, then...

I think he has and that is why this was posted ????
Erik-Jan.

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #5

On 2006-02-10, Erik-Jan Geniets <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not getting a connection to the .cn site. Redirected to .com
> instead.

Try clearing out your cookies and cache, that should stop it.

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Bob Hobden

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #6

"Neil Brownlee" wrote
> Right...
>
> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>
> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
>

I totally agree Neil, it is not right, but it just serves to remind us that
China is not a true democracy despite all the up-beat press lately and
should also remind us how lucky we are to live in one.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

 

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Derek

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #7

"Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Neil Brownlee" wrote
>> Right...
>>
>> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
>> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>>
>> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
>> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
>>
>
> I totally agree Neil, it is not right, but it just serves to remind us
> that China is not a true democracy despite all the up-beat press lately
> and should also remind us how lucky we are to live in one.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob
> In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London
Goodness don't go using phrases like true democracy I can think of two
english speaking 1st world countries where one man decides foreign policy
and he was elected twice on very shaky ground
Derek

 

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GbH

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #8

Derek wrote:
> "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Neil Brownlee" wrote
>>> Right...
>>>
>>> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
>>> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>>>
>>> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
>>> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
>>>
>>
>> I totally agree Neil, it is not right, but it just serves to remind
>> us that China is not a true democracy despite all the up-beat press
>> lately and should also remind us how lucky we are to live in one.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Bob
>> In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London
> Goodness don't go using phrases like true democracy I can think of two
> english speaking 1st world countries where one man decides foreign
> policy and he was elected twice on very shaky ground
> Derek

And that policy seems to be mirrored where he was neither eligible to stand nor
elected!

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GbH

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• Feb 10, 2006

• #9

Neil Brownlee wrote:
> Right...
>
> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>
> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen


Google.cn is heavily censored. It was the only way Google could get CN govt to
accept them.

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Karen Gallagher

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• Feb 11, 2006

• #10

GbH wrote:
> Neil Brownlee wrote:
>> Right...
>>
>> Search Tiananmen at Google Images:
>> http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
>>
>> Now search Tiananmen at Google China:
>> http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
>
>
> Google.cn is heavily censored. It was the only way Google could get
> CN govt to accept them.

The power of trade - if we all didn't really need China for it's cheaply
made goods and the purchase of our raw materials we could tell them where to
go with their appalling human rights records. As it is, we don't condemn
them, we don't criticise them in any serious way, and we do enormous amounts
of trade with them.

A sad reflection on the realities of globalisation.

Karen


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