[Dean's World] Aziz P: Google.com is not censored in China

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Posted by Aziz P:
Google.com is not censored in China
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149878816.shtml


   sure, Google.cn is censored by Chinese authorities, but the vast
   majority of Chinese internet users prefer the slower yet [1]uncensored
   .COM portal to the much snappier yet filtered .CN:

     Brin, who serves as a co-president of Google, said users in China
     have two options -- slower speed search which is uncensored at
     http://www.google.com, or faster search, with limits set by Chinese
     authorities at http://www.google.cn/.

     "If you are a normal Chinese user and you want to use Google, just
     go to google.com and you actually won't get good service.
     Eventually you will go to google.cn," Brin said.

     The vast majority of Web users inside China -- 99 percent, he said
     -- use Google.com rather than Google.cn at this time.

     Chinese Internet service providers take steps to ensure that the
     uncensored google.com site does not work as intended, Brin said.
     The google.cn censored site would presumably not be slowed by
     Chinese blocking tactics.

   So, yeah maybe a picture is worth a thousand words, but they are the
   same thousand words as long as the URL is the same.

   oh yeah, and Zarqawi? Still dead. I think that he and Yasser are
   finding out the difference between "[2]jihad" and "[3]hirabah" right
   about now...

References

   1. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-06-09T105024Z_01_N08363725_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-CHINA.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R2-Today-11
   2. http://cityofbrass.blogspot.com/2002/07/this-post-is-jihad.html
   3. http://cityofbrass.blogspot.com/2002/10/wretched-are-those-who-call-for.html