Sunday January 17, 2010
Google to China: Drop Dead
Rory O'Connor
Mediachannel.org
It should come as no surprise to anyone — least of all to Google founding whiz kids Sergey Brin and Larry Page — that reporting of their company’s recent announcement that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship was itself heavily censored in China.
Although, as the New York Times noted, “Some big Chinese news portals initially carried a short dispatch on Google’s announcement,” news of the decision “soon tumbled from the headlines.” Later reports omitted all references to “free speech” and “surveillance.”
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