Posted on 05/31/2009 10:11:34 AM PDT by Nachum
May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s head of global public policy, Andrew McLaughlin, is leaving the company to become deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration, a person familiar with the matter said.
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The list, ping
Guess it’s back to YaHoo!
or Bing..
Oh...Google....lackey of the Chicoms. Happy to coddle the dictators in Beijing.
Continued Barry manipulation of TV media, paper media, and now internet media via the powerful and influencial Google.
Got to squelch any and all criticism by any means ftw.
HOW GOOGLE CENSORS ITS CHINESE PORTAL
Ellen Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Google is a window on the world, but your view can depend on whether you’re in the West or the East.
Search for images of “Tiananmen,” as in Tiananmen Square, scene of the 1989 student democracy protest, on the China site, Google.cn. Most of the time the results turn up pictures of the Beijing plaza: a flock of birds soaring above the grounds, the square all lit up at night, tourists posing for the camera.
Run the same search again on Google.com, the uncensored version used here in the United States, and the images are strikingly different. The highest-ranking results are photographs of tanks rolling into the square to put a stop to the demonstration more than 16 years ago.
“Google uncensored shows a bunch of tanks streaming in there,” said Danny Sullivan, founder and editor of Search Engine Watch. “Google China has smiling, happy people.”
That is just one example of how Google censored its Web site for the launch in China last week and highlights the Silicon Valley Internet company’s ethical dilemma: How does it stay true to its “don’t be evil” mantra while tapping into China’s booming Internet market?
this might be a smart move by an administration that sees a genuine need, or it might be one of this little Orwellian foxes that turns out to be big trouble later on. Most likely it’s both.
Bump!
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