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Google is almost sure to pull out of China

The long march
Mon Mar 15 2010, 14:50

INVESTMENT RAG the Financial Times claims that Google is 99.9 per cent certain that it must shut down its Chinese search engine.

The company's talks with China over censorship apparently have broken down with neither side having given any ground.

Quoting a source inside Google, the FT reports that Google has drawn up detailed plans to walk out of China. The FT thinks it likely that an announcement could come any day now that talks between Google and the Chinese government have reached an impasse and that Google will therefore abandon its Chinese language search operation in the Middle Kingdom.

China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, told reporters on Friday that if Google did not respect Chinese laws then China would view it as "unfriendly and irresponsible", and the company would then have to face the consequences.

In other words, it seems that China is telling Google, we don't need your filthy capitalist pig-dog search engine contaminating the minds of our glorious heroic workers with information about Tibetan monks and massacres of our students that never happened. This is particularly distracting while we are in business making imperialist trinkets to prop up your decadent lifestyles and save enough money to buy up the West.

The business community, however, is a little shocked at that Google might be making a decision for once that's not based on making a lot of cash.

China is a large and growing, if competitive market and many cannot believe that Google will turn away from it over something as minor as morals regarding Internet censorship and human rights.

It is not clear what Google's cunning plan for its Android OS for smartphones will be in China either. µ

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Microsoft assists the Chinese regime

Microsoft said it will continue to assist the Chinese government to censor the internet.

The Chinese government must be very pleased with Microsoft products such as Bing, and Windows Phone, for helping to prop it up and block information to the outside world.

posted by : Franco, 16 March 2010 Complain about this comment
10 Gb/s Now Coming In.....Nic

10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck?

Most servers use less than 100 Mb/s bandwidth. today VM server has 40 Vm or on Gb line, about 25 mb/s or More Like 10 Mb/s so less than before VM. Whats' Dude to Do?

10 Gb/s Been about since 2002, both optical & infiniband copper. Pushing envelope well above 100 Mb/s to ~ 250 Mb/s & thats route being taken. VNU is typical operation that be intrested in such Nic networking. beats not working by 100%. Discussed last week, so leaving links light, yet now You Know Where Flo do Go, Soon Enough.

Julie states: Gonna Tunnel into DrugStore, then Turn on Fantasy Lights. Maybe 10 Gb/s be Better. Ou, Julie, More to Left.

posted by : Speedo, 15 March 2010 Complain about this comment
Limit Choices of Corruption We Prefer!?

The whole world is corrupt 1 John 5:19.

It's like saying "I got healthy vitamins with concentrated arsenic to distribute to your public entourage, your public really wants it."... "No thanks... we have our own medicine lase with cyanide." "Oh how can you possibly refuse?"

Truthful messages comes with intentions of liberation while it opens poisonous ones at the same time, like pornography gets a pass at the border along with repressed information. Strange that porn is accepted in the west with the problems of abuse causes by this media while some countries ban porn but cut to the chase and abuse women & children with a more limited access to it anyway.

I fail to see what is the agenda worth since the same is happening east or west.

posted by : Phil, 15 March 2010 Complain about this comment
My take on this *today* is that may be a "real" flap,

considering the fact that go_ogle is merging with NSA. Must be more going on here than is public.

posted by : bigger_luddite, 15 March 2010 Complain about this comment
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