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Google Fights Global Internet Censorship

Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:56 AM EDT
technology, google, unknown, censorship
Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer

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A Google sign is posted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in this April 19, 2007 file photo. Google Inc. is seeking help from the U.S. government to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

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coxy

Their sign could do with a clean.

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Reply#1 - Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:35 AM EDT
Snowflake-Seven

Their filthy sign is actually illustrative of the underlying public relations fluff in this article. Whether it is well intentioned or not, Google has acquired a reputation in recent months of cooperating with foreign governments, i.e. China, in censoring the Internet. Both the sign and their corporate free speech policies could use some serious elbow grease.

    #1.1 - Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:25 PM EDT
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    MRZK.COM

    Google:

    1.) To avoid censorship, refuse to condone censorship.

    2.) Use your clout to refuse to do anything else.

    3.) When in America, hire Americans to cut your lawn, they will have enough cultural savvy to brush the cuttings off the sign.

      Reply#2 - Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:33 PM EDT
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