“You censor your results” China claims against Google

Oh boy. If you want to see a good form of irony, this is it folks. China is accusing Google of censorship. Never mind the fact that China has made headlines countless times for blocking numerous websites and social networking services above and beyond what is necessary. Though, censorship is never necessary. I’ll admit that many countries, the U.S. included, blocks sites here and there and manages to stay out of the public spotlight. But I’m sure we all know the difference between China’s censorship and everyone else’s censorship. Why all the commotion and sudden stampede of black pots and kettles running down the street?

It all has to do with a recent report written by China’s main newspaper, “The People’s Daily” accusing Google and their planned online book store of infringing on Chinese copyrights. For the last few days, the report on TPD’s website has been flagged as “malicious” in nature by Google and is seemingly unaccessible. Baidu, the 60+% top dog search engine in China reports no such problem.

So China is all upset because they are getting the ‘ol censorship stick smacked across their face? (If that is even the case at all…) Irony at it’s finest. So let’s take a poll: Is Google (A) proactively flagging and blocking The People’s Daily report/page, or is this (B) all some big mishap?

Leave it inside.

The Inquirer