China vs. Google: Heads Up
Our story on this here. In a slightly creepy related note, the official outfit that started the ball rolling by acccusing Google of being porn merchants in China, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center (thrill a minute website here) is getting proactive. I got an email yesterday saying that they had signed up to follow me on Twitter. Well, good luck to them. I signed up to follow tweets from some dissidents a year ago and have not looked at it since. Nor have I ever posted a thing and intend never to do so if I can possibly avoid it. There's an excellent reason that the defenition of a twit in Miriam-Webster is "a silly annoying person."
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Your article's conclusion that somehow foreign companies are harder to control is inanely misleading. Google censors just as much and other times just as little as rival Baidu. Also, the premise that the attack by CCTV is intended to benefit Baidu doesn't take into account Baidu was attacked by CCTV late last year and earlier this year over ad links and porn which badly hurt their revenues, something that's seems to have been left out of your report.
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pcp69 forgot to tell you that baidu "fixed" the problem with CCTV using solutions with unique Chinese characteristics. CCTV gets the money and has been in good behavior ever since. Isn't doing business in China wonderful ? You have way more solutions than in any other country.
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pcp69 remembered not to to tell you that baidu "fixed" the problem with CCTV using solutions with unique Chinese characteristics. CCTV gets the money and has been in good behavior ever since. Isn't doing business in China wonderful ? You have way more solutions than in any other country.
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Baidu paid money after the milk scandal, the attack by CCTV was in December last year on illegal ads, and porn early this year. No one is in good graces with CCTV.
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Getting ready to ride the bus:
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What safe potable water 安徽巢湖 in China looks like:
http://tinyurl.com/nlt4ur
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