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     Gandhiguevara Side Hero Username: Gandhiguevara Post Number: 3388 Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 173.65.159.215 Rating: N/A |
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=1042 The question remains is why now? Google could have taken a stand on human rights in China on many occasions in the past. In a Tweet yesterday, Bobbie Johnson, a reporter for the UK based Guardian newspaper, pointed out:”Goog acted after its rights were infringed, not the rights of its users.” But even this doesn’t explain why Google has found its backbone and made a stand now. It has to be because it has a new policy, one that it tested last year in Korea. And it’s a policy in which Google is able to take advantage of the global nature of the Internet to thwart any national ambitions — no matter how large. We first saw this new policy at work last year in South Korea where the government has passed a new law that requires users posting video, or comments on large web sites to use their real names. Web site operators must collect and verify users names. The “real-name” law is designed to clamp down on government critics. What did Google do? When the deadline arrived for the new law to be implemented, it blocked Korean users uploading videos or leaving comments on its Korean YouTube site. It told them to use YouTube sites in other countries | ||
| Gandhiguevara Side Hero Username: Gandhiguevara Post Number: 3387 Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 173.65.159.215 Rating: N/A |
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