In the United States, you can "Google" or surf the net with no filtering or censorship of the web sites. You can search for and find almost any information you want.
In China, this is not the case. The government requires by law that information on the Internet be censored. Therefore, you cannot search for and find any information you want. If the government does not want you to find certain information online, it will block these web sites from being seen. Some sites, such as Blogger and YouTube, are completely banned in China.
Hot topic in the news - Google in China! Google has operated on the mainland of China since 2006, and by Chinese law, Google could only operate if certain web sites and topics could not be searched and viewed by the Chinese people. Google had been frustrated by this limitation of free speech and by other issues with the Chinese government.......... In January 2010, Google threatened to leave China.
Two months later, on March 22, 2010, Google announced that is would (kind of) leave China. Google is now redirecting its Chinese users to their Hong Kong base instead of the mainland China base. The Hong Kong base is not subject to the same censorship laws as mainland China. (Hong Kong is a region of China, but it is an island and does not have the same laws that the mainland does.)
The Chinese government is extremely unhappy with Google's decision to leave mainland China. In fact, hours after Google's pullout in mainland China, the Chinese government started censoring search results routed through the Google Hong Kong site! ...... How long this will last or how complete the censorship will be is still an open question.
Could you live without Google?
In the United States, you can "Google" or surf the net with no filtering or censorship of the web sites. You can search for and find almost any information you want.
In China, this is not the case. The government requires by law that information on the Internet be censored. Therefore, you cannot search for and find any information you want. If the government does not want you to find certain information online, it will block these web sites from being seen. Some sites, such as Blogger and YouTube, are completely banned in China.
Hot topic in the news - Google in China!
Google has operated on the mainland of China since 2006, and by Chinese law, Google could only operate if certain web sites and topics could not be searched and viewed by the Chinese people. Google had been frustrated by this limitation of free speech and by other issues with the Chinese government.......... In January 2010, Google threatened to leave China.
Two months later, on March 22, 2010, Google announced that is would (kind of) leave China. Google is now redirecting its Chinese users to their Hong Kong base instead of the mainland China base. The Hong Kong base is not subject to the same censorship laws as mainland China. (Hong Kong is a region of China, but it is an island and does not have the same laws that the mainland does.)
The Chinese government is extremely unhappy with Google's decision to leave mainland China. In fact, hours after Google's pullout in mainland China, the Chinese government started censoring search results routed through the Google Hong Kong site! ...... How long this will last or how complete the censorship will be is still an open question.
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