
“Imagine if the internet took hold in China,” George W Bush said in 1999, “Imagine how freedom would spread.” It turns out he was wrong about that one. Google, after four years of running its search engine in China, relocated to Hong Kong last week. On the mainland, Google had been censoring its search results to in accordance with Communist Party restrictions. [...]
Share and Enjoy on Blog Directories & social networks
Tags: accordance, Belarus, Bill Clinton, change, China, coffee houses, Communist, engine, facebook, fact, former soviet bloc, free expression, freedom, George W. Bush, going to prison, Google, Gordon Brown, Hong Kong, Internet, jell o, mainland, party, prime minister gordon brown, repressive structures, Rwanda, Search, social networking sites, sophisticated system, state, Tom Standage, UK, utopians, victorian internet, web, Week, world
Published by Frances Locke on Mar 31, 2010 under
Google Buzz,
Internet Service,
Social Networking |
Post your comment now