Bye, Google.
I am glad to see that Google want quit China mainland, because google.cn is just shame but nothing. For the potential big market, Google forgot its Don’t be Evil. Although there is big possibility this decision is also led by money, at least it needn’t give in to the Chinese government.
I am a big fan of Google and at the same time I almost use all the product of Google, I cannot without Gmail and Reader for a day. Maybe after Google left China, the .com domain would be blocked and we cannot use Gmail and other product, it will be a disaster for Chinese university and scientist. For me, it force me to use Tor and other proxy tools, and maybe buy a VPN account. That’s quite not convenience, it make me realize we back to the Qing Dynasty, in that period, the rulers blocked China from the world.
We can’t access YouTube.
We can’t access Facebook.
We can’t access Twitter.
We can’t access blogspot.
Is google.com the next?
I confront the same thing. My gmail and google reader…
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I think the reason Google is exiting the Chinese market, is because of the strict censorship laws, and Google plain can’t be bothered to use a lot of time and money on developing systems to block sex, violence and other naughty stuff from the Internet. I feel for the Chinese people though, they should have the same access to web services like anyone else, and as you said, the only thing the government censorship is doing, is driving people to using proxy tools and VPN, like you mentioned.
People don’t stop accessing “questionable” content just because it’s blocked, it just takes them a couple of extra minutes to access it.
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The most satirical thing is Chinese government use our tax buy the tech and device of western companies to deprive our freedom.
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