http://americanfuture.net/?p=94 Marc Schulman on a world in turmoil Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:33:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://americanfuture.net/?p=94#comment-45 AMERICAN FUTURE » Blog Archive » Search Engine Censorship II Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:14:24 +0000 http://americanfuture.net/?p=94#comment-45 [...] In “Search Engine Censorship,” I criticized Google’s decision to remove items critical of Chinese government policy from its news search. I’m happy to report that the editors of the Wall Street Journal agree with me: Over the past 12 months Beijing has leaned heavily on Western Internet companies to help China censor information, or even to become police informants. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all kowtowed to varying degrees. But with each tightening of the Internet screw the Western collaborators are put in a more embarrassing position. Helping China police the Internet may be good for business in the short run, but it’s not a viable long-term strategy for companies whose success is based on the free flow of information on the Web. [...] [...] In “Search Engine Censorship,” I criticized Google’s decision to remove items critical of Chinese government policy from its news search. I’m happy to report that the editors of the Wall Street Journal agree with me: Over the past 12 months Beijing has leaned heavily on Western Internet companies to help China censor information, or even to become police informants. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all kowtowed to varying degrees. But with each tightening of the Internet screw the Western collaborators are put in a more embarrassing position. Helping China police the Internet may be good for business in the short run, but it’s not a viable long-term strategy for companies whose success is based on the free flow of information on the Web. [...]

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