Censorship

[hellziggy]

I love my Google searches. But all this talk about the censorship in China? It just makes me wonder how much trust we can put into searches here. How are we gonna know that something has been censored out? How will we know when it's Google lying to us?

Here are the results of two Google image searches. The first is at the US site we usually all use: Tiananmen Square

But if you go to google.cn and do the same search, this is what you get: Tiananmen Square

Comments

[jane]

you know? (not to praise big brother, of course, but...)

It might just be that there is more going on around the square than the protests from several years ago. Like, actual life, so there'll be more hits for more recent things there. and since in the us the most recent news from there is not so recent, a us google search will get you a lot of stuff from the protests. (and the fact that it's a part of the taught history here and so there would be more websites and such out there for and by students.)

at least that's what I'm thinking. Not to say that I'm not extremely paranoid, because I am, it's just that sometimes things are sneaky that way. :P

and censorship here?? no, really? fox news anyone?

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

Good example, of course.

[lurker-dave.livejournal.com]

I heard that you can get around the censorship by misspelling 'Tiananmen' in the search.

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

So, can the Chinese people not navigate to the regular Google pages at all? I mean, when I was living in the UK, I could use either Google.com or Google.co.uk, depending on what I was looking for.