Comments on: Baidu Sorry for Pornography

By: Taylor Flatt

Taylor Flatt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:34:40 +0000

Then by giving in that is not giving them MORE power? I don’t want to go into conspiracy’s or politics but by giving in it isn’t helping the problem. For all we know, it could only be just slowing it down for the time being. I see no good end if things like this continue. The internet should not be regulated by any major entity no matter government or not.

By: Nathaniel Ed

Nathaniel Ed — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:27:08 +0000

True. But my point is that China is powerful, and websites could get screwed over by this if they’re not careful.

By: Taylor Flatt

Taylor Flatt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:24:09 +0000

Yes, but by allowing themselves to be pushed by such a bigger country in a time of uncertainties can only lead to disaster. What if they want Google to censor out all United States Government websites because they had something on them China disagrees with. Would you still suggest they take them out because of hits?

What about if China decides that it doesn’t want sites displayed on Google if they have any pictures with violence in them. Frankly, I can go on but I think my point is put out there that if they get their way because they have the population what will they do next?

What if the US had simply stayed out of WWII completely because Germany had better supplies or because they had just taken France? What if all countries begin demanding things that are like this but demand different things be removed? Will Google simply ignore them because they don’t get enough hits from that country?

I don’t know. I am still pretty skeptical about this whole situation.

By: Nathaniel Ed

Nathaniel Ed — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:17:25 +0000

Yeah, but China has the greatest population, and they are one of the greatest users of computers. Since China is blocking all those sites, the blocked sites have SERIOUS damages since more than 1.3 billion people (Population: 1,330,044,544 (July 2008 est.) according to cia.gov, and the total population of the world (since November 2008, according to census.gov) is about 6.7 billion. That’s almost one fifth of the world! Assuming all of the countries visit Google equally proportional to size, the Google, plus the other websites would lose about 1/5 of the hits.

I really think that these companies should care about it. Maybe not NYTimes, since it’s suppose to be AMERICAN, but Google really should pay attention.