Google restored "Censoring" and Hope to stay in China

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Veer, thankyou for your outdated old news.

Due to your abnormal behavior on this forum

Now i am 100% sure you are the victim of those 69% poor children

in India, a real description of you, "Veer";

A World Health Organization survey also points out that there is an unambiguous behavioral and emotional pattern in the abused. Usually the child hardly talks about the incident. And, even if he or she does, no one takes it seriously. That in turn triggers feelings of self doubt and guilt, exacerbating the child’s feeling that it is his or her fault. As the child matures, compulsive behavior reinforces this guilt. Small wonder that many adult sexual problems, according to psychoanalysts, trace their provenance to childhood abuse.
Asia Sentinel - Hidden Darkness: Child Sexual Abuse in India

Please seek some professional help before its too late.

 

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January 18, 2010, 5:13 AM ET

Clearing Up Confusion on Google and China

By Sky Canaves

From China Real Time Report:

google From Silicon Valley to Zhongguancun, Google’s surprise announcement that it may pull out of China has fueled an enormous amount of discussion in recent days, not all of it 100% accurate. Below are some misstatements and misunderstandings we’ve seen:

1. Google failed in China

Google’s China operations contribute a small fraction of the company’s overall revenue – the company doesn’t disclose the amount, but analysts estimate it was a few percent of its total $21.8 billion in 2008 revenue, or several hundred million dollars. But Google has made significant progress in China in recent years, raising its share of the Internet search market to roughly 36% in the fourth quarter of 2009 from 13% when it started its Chinese-language google.cn site in early 2006, according to data from research firm Analysys International.

Many other foreign companies doing business in China would gladly forgo big profits in the short term for comparable market-share growth in China—especially in an industry where China has more users than any other country (384 million according to the latest statistics). Google has also been particularly popular among the highly sought-after demographic of young, educated, white-collar urban professionals. The company’s powerful brand of business and ethics (“don’t be evil) has also earned it a fair amount of good will among Chinese Internet users, many of whom are now mourning its (still uncertain) fate. While rival Baidu still has a much larger 58% share of the search market, its brand has suffered as a result of scandals involving paid results and allegations of censorship of sensitive news stories.

Google doesn’t say if it’s profitable in China, but there’s certainly no reason to assume it’s not. Baidu, its chief rival, reported net profit of about $153 million on revenue of $468 million for 2008, when it said it had 6,387 employees. Google’s revenue would have perhaps half or two thirds that amount, but it likely has a much lower cost base in China than Baidu, since Google is believed to employ well under 1,000 employees in the country, and can use technology developed by its U.S. headquarters.

2. Google.com is not accessible in China

Before Google introduced its China-specific search engine, Google.cn, in 2006, its global site Google.com was subject to periodic blocking in China. But for the last four years, Google.com has been almost always accessible to users in China.

However, the fact that Google.com can be accessed from China doesn’t mean that Internet users can get to forbidden content listed in the site’s search results. Links to sites that are blocked in China will still return error messages or time out when they are clicked. (In contrast, Google’s Chinese search engine, Google.cn, will filter out links to sites that don’t comply with Chinese laws and regulations.)

And of course, given the unpredictability of China’s Web restrictions, there’s no guarantee that Google.com will continue to be available to users inside China, at least not without “scaling the wall.”

3. Google has Gmail servers in China

Some reports have said that the reason Chinese hackers were able to access Gmail accounts is that Google has email servers physically located in China. This is not the case. Google says it has no email servers in the country.

Indeed, Google has said keeping its servers out of China was a deliberate move to help protect user information. When the company announced its plans to launch google.cn in January 2006, executives said one of the safeguards it planned to use to protect user interests was that it wouldn’t host user-generated content like email and blogs on servers in China.

Google had reason to be careful. In 2005, there was widespread outcry among rights activists and the U.S. government after Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government, which was used as evidence to sentence journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison. Yahoo said that, because its Chinese mail servers were inside China, the company felt compelled to comply with the authorities’ request.

4. Google.cn search results are already uncensored

After Tuesday’s announcement, Web users ran amok on Google.cn, looking up sensitive terms such as “Tiananmen 1989,” “tank man,” and even “sensitive words.” But many have been disappointed with the results, as searches for these terms still turned up the familiar disclaimer that “in accordance with local laws and regulations, a portion of the search results are not displayed.”

Google says that it hasn’t yet started to remove content filters on Google.cn, a process that could take weeks.

How to explain the images of tank man and links to sites about the Dalai Lama found via Google.cn? Many of the searches yielding fruitful results appear to have been conducted in English, a trick that often turns up fuller results on Google.cn than a search for the same term in Chinese. (To see what we mean, compare these Google.cn results for “Dalai Lama” in English and Chinese).

5. Google has identified Chinese dissidents as the targets of cyber attacks

Since Google revealed that it has been the target of cyber attacks, and that it had identified two Gmail accounts that had been compromised, a number of prominent Chinese activists have reported that their Gmail accounts have been hacked, in some cases repeatedly. Google says that these intrusions were not part of the larger, sophisticated attack on its security infrastructure, but likely the result of more pedestrian phishing scams or malware.

6. Google has already shut down its business in China

On Friday, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said that neither MOC nor the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce had received any information from Google about a planned withdrawal of its investment. A person close to Google also denied rumors that Google employees in China have ceased to report for work.

 

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REFILE-UPDATE 1-Google probing possible inside help on attack
Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:18am EST

SHANGHAI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Google (GOOG.O) is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday.

Google, the world's most popular search engine, said last week it may pull out of the world's biggest Internet market by users after reporting it had been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack on its network that resulted in theft of its intellectual property.

The sources, who are familiar with the situation, told Reuters that the attack, which targeted people who have access to specific parts of Google networks, may have been facilitated by people working in Google China's office.

"We're not commenting on rumour and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation, and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said.

Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software (malware) used in the Google attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is malware that, once inside a computer, allows someone unauthorised access. The sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself, the analysts said.

Local media, citing unnamed sources, reported that some Google China employees were denied access to internal networks after Jan. 13, while some staff were put on leave and others transferred to different offices in Google's Asia Pacific operations. Google said it would not comment on its business operations.

TALKS SOON

Google, which has denied rumours that it has already decided to shut down its China offices, said on Monday it contacted the Chinese government last week after the announcement.

"We are going to have talks with them in the coming few days," Google said.

Google is also still in the process of scanning its internal networks since the cyber-attack in mid-December.

China has tried to play down Google's threat to leave, saying there are many ways to resolve the issue, but insisting all foreign companies, Google included, must abide by Chinese laws. [ID:nTOE60E00I]

Washington said it was issuing a diplomatic note to China formally requesting an explanation for the attacks.

The Google issue risks becoming another irritant in China's relationship with the United States. Ties are already strained by arguments over the yuan currency's exchange rate, which U.S. critics say is unfairly low, trade protectionism and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Washington has long been worried about Beijing's cyber-spying programme. A congressional advisory panel said in November the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be penetrating U.S. computers to gather useful data for its military. (Reporting by the Shanghai newsroom; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

 

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January 18, 2010, 5:50 AM ET

China Daily Sharpens Tone on Google


While Chinese-language state media mostly continued to devote little ink to Google’s threat to quit China, the English-language China Daily had two sharply worded editorials in Monday’s paper deriding the search engine behemoth’s stated reasons for wanting to leave.

Sky Canaves
A cartoon in Monday’s China Daily portrayed Google as a wailing child

The comments seem to mark a shift in Chinese commentary on the matter, a sign China is seeking to propagate its own narrative of what is happening.

Google’s statement last week cast its move as one driven by principle — it is “no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn” following cyber attacks that it said originated from China and further limits on free speech on the Internet.

But writers in the China Daily say the company’s decision was driven less by noble intentions than by commercial interests.

“Is Google’s exit threat a matter of censorship and human rights?” asks an in-house editorial. Its answer: The case is “purely business in nature and it should have nothing to do with political ideology.”

Instead, the case “provides some Westerners, who are biased against China’s political system, with an opportunity to point their fingers at the Chinese government… they grab any opportunity to do so.”

On an adjacent page, a separate opinion piece says “Google’s decision is no bigger than a corporate maneuver.” The author is identified as Liu Si, from the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The editorials both mention accusations that Google facilitated the spread of pornography, but steer clear of the more sensitive issue of political censorship. The first editorial, like comments by Chinese officials last week, stresses that cyber attacks are illegal in China, but doesn’t address the implicit allusion in Google’s statement that the Chinese government may have been behind the cyber attacks — thus skirting the real controversies.

The China Daily editorials struck a more strident tone than editorials last week, including one on the Web site of the Global Times, an English-language paper with a nationalistic bent, that said Google’s withdrawal would “imply a setback to China and serious loss to China’s Net culture.” An opinion piece in the Beijing News last week acknowledged that China’s Internet market has benefitted from Google’s presence in China.

Other observers, both inside and outside China, have also speculated that Google’s threat to leave China was driven primarily by business considerations, despite evidence that Google has made significant progress in China in recent years, and has raised its market share there to roughly a third.

Meanwhile, the White House has come out strongly behind Google, calling Google’s allegations of cyber attacks “troubling.”

–Patricia Jiayi Ho

 

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"not leaving china" as i foreseen some days before, all google needs is a heated debate to promote itself which has never been happen.