Both Google and Yahoo have been criticized for censoring their search results in China. What are your feelings about this? Why should Google, or why should Google not, produce different search results for different countries?
Different countries adhere to their own set of laws and can do what they wish when censoring the internet and other media tools. Each country has its own set of customs and beliefs that do not coincide with the rest of the world. I believe that Google and Yahoo should censor different materials in different countries. Although it is unfair that a citizens of China, for example, do not have access to the same information as the people in America, it adheres with international laws, and needs to be accepted. Aside form that I think it is huge disadvantage to have limited access to the worlds fastest growing industry. It is not fair and it creates an idea of government control that I do not understand.
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Having Chinese friends, they make sense of it better than I ever could. To them, it's "too bad," but it's accepted. Access to more information is likely to make the rich, who have access to this medium, richer with what they know.
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