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Google to Chicoms: "I wish I knew how to quit you."
China tells Web companies to obey controls...
Jack Twist: I wish I knew how to quit you.
Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.
China dismisses GOOGLE's threat to quit...
MAGAZINE REPORT: GOOGLE'S reasons for leaving 'aren't as pure as they seem'...
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References (this blog cannot be accessed from inside communist China, sorry.)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, a movie by Ang Lee
see Rebecca MacKinnon blog at
rconversation.com
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[北京时间 2010年1月15日]
•网易科技转载《第一财经日报》文章《谷歌退出中国 百度安排逐个联系其广告客户 》。称百度员工表示”幸福来得太快“；”我们内部调侃这是捡钱计划“。
Google puts its foot down.
This is a picture of people laying flowers and making a traditional bow of mourning in front of the Google sign outside Google's Beijing headquarters.
Google's announcement that it will "review" its business operations in China and is no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, is generating a range of reaction in China. Conversation over at the #googlecn hashtag on Twitter - created shortly after the announcement - has been raging fast and furious. The Chinese Twittersphere - comprised exclusively of people who are tech savvy enough to know how to get around censorship or they wouldn't be there - is generally cheering the news. Some need no translation, like this one which says: "Google's Do No Evil vs. CPC's Do No.1 Evil"(CPC means "Communist Party of China"). There's a report that the Tsinghua University security department has announced that students can't take flowers to Google without permission. Another person reports that all the Chinese Internet portals have been told by authorities that they're only allowed to use Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily reports on the subject - they're not allowed to use reports from other sources, and they should not feature today's news about Google on the front pages of their sites. Here is a report on how somebody posted a translation of Google's announcement on the Chinese web portal, Netease, and it was censored. One person suggests that leaving China frees up Google to focus on building the anti-censorship business instead of the censorship business. (UPDATE: China Digital Times is doing a running twitter translation here.)
On the other hand, a short Chinese-language report in Sina.com's tech section is generating a long thread of comments from people who are unhappy about Google's announcement because they don't want to lose access to Google. Somebody has set up a website, http://www.googlebacktochina.com/ with a Chinese header that translates approximately as "Give me back my Google." Famous tech blogger Keso mourns that Google's retreat brings the Chinese Internet one step closer to being an Intranet. Sichuan-based dissident Ran Yunfei is also unhappy, likening Google's retreat to a dissident who leaves China compared to one who stays in China and toughs it out.
Another flag-waving constituency is thumbing its nose and saying good riddance.
Google's decision is clearly controversial even among those in China who spend a lot of time fighting censorship, and is devastating to many more who aren't in the habit of using circumvention tools or don't know how.
Google's decision was tough and is going to have a great deal of of difficult fallout. Still, based on what I know, I think Google has done the right thing. They are sending a very public message - which people in China are hearing - that the Chinese government's approach to Internet regulation is unacceptable and poisonous. They are living up to their "don't be evil" motto - much mocked of late - and living up to their commitments to free speech and privacy as a member of the Global Network Initiative.
I will be writing more on this topic soon - but first I must write the two articles I promised to write this evening, which are due in a few hours and not yet started...
and brin and page still cannot quit china!
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