China Tells Google to End Foreign Site Access
 

China Tells Google to End Foreign Site Access

By Kathrin Hille in Beijing

Published: June 19 2009 14:37 | Last updated: June 20 2009 00:02

Beijing has ordered Google to stop users of its Chinese-language service accessing overseas websites in the biggest blow to the world’s leading search engine in China since it started operating there four years ago.

In a move that could disrupt Google’s growth in China, which now has more internet users than the US, the Chinese government said it had told Google to suspend foreign searches and a feature that automatically suggests multiple search results once typing commences in the search window.

The action comes amid a storm of outrage among Chinese internet users over Beijing’s order that every new PC sold in the country be equipped with censorship software, ostensibly to block pornography. One senior US internet figure said the move against Google appeared to be an attempt to deflect attention away from the domestic censorship uproar by redirecting concerns about pornography against a foreign company.

According to state media on Friday, authorities said Google was being “punished” for linking to pornographic content.

On Thursday, in a “law enforcement talk”, the government announced that it was ordering the company to suspend foreign searches and automated keywords, according to Xinhua, the official news agency, and China Central Television, the main state broadcaster.

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SOURCE: G. Edward Griffin http://www.realityzone.com/currentperiod.html China: Government's so-called porn filter blocks Internet access to Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that opposes oppression of the Communist Party. PCWorld 2009 Posted June 13 (Cached)

China's Porn Filter Blocks Falun Gong Sites

Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service
Jun 12, 2009 3:10 am

Internet filtering software that China plans to distribute nationwide blocks content related to a spiritual movement banned in China, despite government claims that the software targets only porn.

The program automatically closes a browser window when it detects Chinese words related to Falun Gong, according to a keyword blacklist decrypted and posted online Thursday in a report by researchers at the University of Michigan.

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