Comments on: Google Go on the Offensive Over State-led Internet Censorship http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk/blog/search-engine-news/google/google-go-on-the-offensive-over-state-led-internet-censorship/ A blog about search engine marketing, search engine optimisation (SEO) and Google AdWords Pay per Click Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:08:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jana http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk/blog/search-engine-news/google/google-go-on-the-offensive-over-state-led-internet-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-21438 jana Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:18 +0000 http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk/blog/?p=1518#comment-21438 I have to say, I HOPE it will always remain a forum for free expression.<br>In my mind "dangerous" is a very subjective word which can be understand by different governments in very different ways. That's the danger. Thus we would give the decision about what's wrong and what's right from ours in the government's hand...!<br><br>Regarding to Eric Schmidt's announcement, I would say Google, among other companies, has set up structures to support government censorship. As Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo notes, “It is not our job to fix the Chinese government.” I agree. But it is sort of spectacularly, willfully oblique to simultaneously condemn the Chinese government, support government censorship, deny responsibility for censorship, and most spectacularly, in Google’s’s case, criticize the efficacy of government-imposed censorship.<br>That internet censorship cannot be complete, and that such strategies are “terrible” and doomed, does not alleviate the complicity of companies and governments trying to tamp down free expression. Certainly governments, but also to a very large extent Google and other internet platforms, bear responsibility for not only maintaining the internet as a space for uncensored expression, but upholding principles of net neutrality, access, and free expression in the face of censorious individuals, movements, organizations, and regimes.<br><br>If you wanna read more about this subject, wanna discuss about it or just wanna write a comment, join our blog: <br><br><a href="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/skirting-responsibility-google-ceo-mark-schmidt-on-internet-censorship/#more-3220" rel="nofollow">http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/skirti...</a><br><br>Jana (member of NCAC) I have to say, I HOPE it will always remain a forum for free expression.
In my mind “dangerous” is a very subjective word which can be understand by different governments in very different ways. That's the danger. Thus we would give the decision about what's wrong and what's right from ours in the government's hand…!

Regarding to Eric Schmidt's announcement, I would say Google, among other companies, has set up structures to support government censorship. As Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo notes, “It is not our job to fix the Chinese government.” I agree. But it is sort of spectacularly, willfully oblique to simultaneously condemn the Chinese government, support government censorship, deny responsibility for censorship, and most spectacularly, in Google’s’s case, criticize the efficacy of government-imposed censorship.
That internet censorship cannot be complete, and that such strategies are “terrible” and doomed, does not alleviate the complicity of companies and governments trying to tamp down free expression. Certainly governments, but also to a very large extent Google and other internet platforms, bear responsibility for not only maintaining the internet as a space for uncensored expression, but upholding principles of net neutrality, access, and free expression in the face of censorious individuals, movements, organizations, and regimes.

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]]> By: Online Reporters Silenced by Wikipedia http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk/blog/search-engine-news/google/google-go-on-the-offensive-over-state-led-internet-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-21408 Online Reporters Silenced by Wikipedia Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:59:13 +0000 http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk/blog/?p=1518#comment-21408 [...] perceive this news; particularly in light of our earlier post on the censorship of the Internet (Google Go on the Offensive Over State-led Internet Censorship). Wikipedia always has to be taken with a pinch of salt, just as with news stories emerging from [...] [...] perceive this news; particularly in light of our earlier post on the censorship of the Internet (Google Go on the Offensive Over State-led Internet Censorship). Wikipedia always has to be taken with a pinch of salt, just as with news stories emerging from [...]

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