Internet search giant Google announced that at 3:03 p.m. they have stopped censoring searches for the chinese people. They have been censoring searches, and restricting what sites that the Chinese people have been wanting to look at due to their communistic reign in their country. They now are routing all of the searches to Google in Hong Kong that is unrestricted, but it did not take long for the Chinese government to catch on to their plans. Some users in China have been complaining about not having access to the Google routers in Hong Kong. Due to these new findings, the Communistic government has began cutting off the google access in their country all together. Soon, a Google representative says, it could be quite possible that Google will be shut down in China all together.
I believe that Google made the right move in unblocking all services to the Chinese. Those people, just like the americans, have a right to be able to look up whatever they want to. Just because they have a communist government, that doesn't give the government the power to look up and block certain key words. Some of these key words or events in the history of China were such as Tiananmen Square, the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, and as well as the Dalai Lama. Personally, i am glad that i live in a country where i can look up whatever I want to and gain access to it. Even though at our schools i believe that the restrictions are a little bit over the top. If a student chose to do a topic on WWII or more specifically the Nazi movement, they would not be able to gain access to that information at school. It is blocked, so even if it is a part of our own personal history we cannot look it up or do searches on the topics that really interest us. So i guess that in the way that we, as students, are censored is quite a bit like the restrictions in China. Alot over the top, and ridiculous in my opinion, but I realize that somehow they are trying to protect us from the evils of the world, even if it dampens our education.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/22/google.china/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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