Here’s an AP article about Google censoring their search results in China.

Here’s what Google says on their Company Overview page: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Go ahead and Google “universally accessible,” and you’ll see that the phrase has more to do with disabilities than politics, though this is clearly a political issue as much as it’s a business issue and an ethical issue.

The AP story notes: “To obtain the Chinese license, Google agreed to omit Web content that the country’s government finds objectionable. Google will base its censorship decisons on guidance provided by Chinese government officials.”

You can Google “China Google firewall” and similar word combos all day long for information about all this. This blog post, with several additional links, is as good a place as any to start.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 at 10:17 am and is filed under Internet Stuff.