China Wants to Close Down Google

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KefZ_X

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Did the chinese Goverment decide this by themselves or did they actually give to people of China a chance to vote on it?
 
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Hankage said:
Abolished said:
"Did the chinese Goverment decide this by themselves or did they actually give to people of China a chance to vote on it?"

...he says with a straight face...
TBF, as mentioned, neither Europe, the USA or Australia have. The UK is even allowing the Police to hack. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7812353.stm]
 

Dudemeister

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Google has no inappropriate content whatsoever on it's own site, A search engine is bound to link to some dodgy stuff.
 

AceDiamond

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Once again the people in power never cease to amaze me in how out of touch they are with how the Internet actually works.
 

CUnk

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Danny Ocean said:
As if. If they do this every single hacker on earth is going to through a hissy fit and crash the internet. Then what will they do!?
I'm sure they would love nothing more than to see the internet go away.
 

plagueflames

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the funny thing is that even if they do pull a miracle out of a very uncomfortable place(see:ear) and get rid of google, another search engine is just goint to pop up and take over googles throne, and if they get rid of the sites, more sites are going to pop up, and if they get rid of the internet(which would be next to impossible) then another version of the internet would pop up, such as the Timmy.
 

CoverYourHead

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The Chinese government shutting down people that say bad things about them? When did this happen?!
 

Turkishchocolate

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plagueflames said:
the funny thing is that even if they do pull a miracle out of a very uncomfortable place(see:ear) and get rid of google, another search engine is just goint to pop up and take over googles throne, and if they get rid of the sites, more sites are going to pop up, and if they get rid of the internet(which would be next to impossible) then another version of the internet would pop up, such as the Timmy.
What? No, the Timmy won't happen until we perfect time travel, go to the 70's, and convince Bill Gates to make it.
 

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Crowghast said:
We all switch back to Ask Jeeves and Yahoo.
My personal favorite, besides Google, is Dogpile, but to each their own.
bluerahjah said:
Ban a search engine? Ok, here's what you do, go into every single person's home, get access to their router with your Super-Mega-Fascist powers, and then go Donkey Kong on it's ass.*

*Going Donkey Kong on a router's ass may require extensive use of Shigeru Miyamoto, batteries not included
That made me laugh a good deal, as did your avatar of Scruffy the Janitor.
AceDiamond said:
Once again the people in power never cease to amaze me in how out of touch they are with how the Internet actually works.
First thing to come to mind was "...a series of tubes."
 

AlphaWolf13

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And so the governments begin to work to destroy all the true information their citizens might learn about them. Anyone who knows the truth, and displays it shall be cataloged and find consequences for this knowledge later on when the government has more control over everyone...
 

Enigmers

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The best they can do is get Google banned from all Chinese IPs (or ban all Chinese IPs from Google.) I honestly don't see what the problem with googles is, it's like asking a librarian to find you a book. If you ask for porn and then try to kill the librarian because they brought you porn, there's something wrong with YOU. not the people who make porn, and not the person who brought you the porn. it's YOU.
 

SwiftFlux

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There's no way the American government will take down internet sites, it goes directly against the first amendment
 

Graustein

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Enigmers said:
The best they can do is get Google banned from all Chinese IPs (or ban all Chinese IPs from Google.) I honestly don't see what the problem with googles is, it's like asking a librarian to find you a book. If you ask for porn and then try to kill the librarian because they brought you porn, there's something wrong with YOU. not the people who make porn, and not the person who brought you the porn. it's YOU.
As I understand it, that's what China is trying to do, just block it from all their IPs. China most definitely does not have the power to shut down Google itself, but they can, with relative ease, simply block Google from their IPs.

As for the librarian porn analogy, it's more along the lines of person A asking the Librarian for porn, and person B shutting down the library for having porn in the first place. The one doing the searching and the one doing the punishing are seperate people.