Word: censoring
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...decision by the Chinese government to censor the activities of human rights activists within the country is upsetting, as is the fact that Google was unable to safeguard its users properly. Luckily, there is a silver lining to the predicament: the opportunity for positive collaboration between Google and the NSA in order to improve privacy worldwide...
...then came Jan. 12, and for Li and Baidu, things went from the sublime to the ridiculous. That's the day Google drew its now famous line in the sand, saying it was no longer willing to censor its Internet searches in China - as the authoritarian government demands - given what it believes have been repeated attempts by Chinese authorities to hack its systems and steal dissidents' Gmail addresses. However noble Google's sentiment may be, in business terms it was "effectively a suicide note" when it came to the search business, as one rival Internet executive put it. "Google...
Following its announcement that China-based hackers had targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists, Google is rethinking its strategy in China, where Internet access is closely circumscribed. The company, whose credo is "Don't be evil," said it will no longer censor results on its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, and may stop operating in the Chinese market altogether...
Berlusconi's allies insist that they are simply responding to a 2007 European Union directive that requires individual countries to set up new media regulations. "The decree does not intend to censor the right to information online, nor to limit the possibility of expressing your ideas and opinions via blogs and social networks," Italy's Vice Minister of Communications, Paolo Romani, said in a statement...
...China's efforts to censor and monitor the web represent a challenge to the uncontested hegemony of Western business and to the dominance of Silicon Valley in the world of new technologies. That story - of China's emergence and a burgeoning world of hungry entrepreneurs not willing to play second fiddle to America - is the backstory for the Google imbroglio and one that is about to assume center stage...