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Google has decided

September 29, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Google has decided

to omit controversial sources that might be blocked from it’s Chinese Google News service. In other words, they condone the Chinese government’s blocking of those sites. Worse, though, they have tried to explain it away as a usability issue on the Google Blog.

Let’s just get this straight. Website usability does NOT provide cover for a company to go out of its way to condone the censorship conducted by an authoritarian, single-party-state government.

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  1. Wrywriter says

    September 29, 2004 at 3:26 pm

    Shame on Google… shame on us all for buying anything made in China…

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