Much has been made of the ways in which Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have accommodated the Chinese government – and rightly so – but Baidu, with its home field advantage, appeared to be in the clear. Now, however, Baidu is running into some censorship problems of its own.
Google Faces Pressure Over Censorship
Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on a proposal during the upcoming annual meeting that would call on Google to take a strong stance against censorship and abusive regimes.
Google Censorship (What we can no longer find)
I am a big fan of Google, for all the things that Google stands for, and for all the amount of content that I generate about the company, I really do like them.
SixApart Apologizes For Censorship
What’s the best way to assuage censorship concerns? Throw a temp under the bus. SixApart’s apologies to Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus came swiftly after Pincus made a proper stink about attempted censorship.
SixApart Forgets Censorship Is Bad
Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus went to Harvard Business School, not journalism school. This may have been the primary reason he was unsure if using a person’s full name to recount a sordid history was really a violation of privacy, like Typepad told him.
Irrepressible.Info Fights Censorship
A new site developed by Amnesty International with the help of long-time supporter The Observer UK and the Open Net Initiative provides a way to republish snippets of content from websites banned by various governments on one’s blog or site.
Google, Censorship, and Search Marketing
From a search marketing perspective, censorship, or put nicely, “content regulation,” is something that we’ve been living with on Google and the other engines for years.
Congress Tears Into Net Companies Over Censorship
Voice Of America reports that American congressmen took to the floor today, blasting internet companies for being partners in censorship efforts, during a briefing earlier today.
Gates Speaks Out Against Net Censorship, Piracy
Bill Gates says that governments trying to censor information on the Internet are wasting their time.
Gates Has Google’s Back On Censorship
Like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft has had to adjust its business practices to suit Chinese government information control personnel, not that there’s anything wrong with that.