Comments on: the "Ministry of Information" (not from Harry Potter) http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/2007/03/30/the-ministry-of-information-not-from-harry-potter/ Bloggin' down on the Farm - news and happenings from the Salmon Farm. A blog on various topics including my thoughts on collaborative technology, personal information in the 21st century, the global internet (or the lack there of), dog training, cooking, architecture, and whatever happens to be a pet peeve on any given day ! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Roy http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/2007/03/30/the-ministry-of-information-not-from-harry-potter/comment-page-1/#comment-858 Roy Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:36:52 +0000 http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/2007/03/30/the-ministry-of-information-not-from-harry-potter/#comment-858 The China development will have exactly the effect the government there is looking for I think: modulation of speech on blogs. At least for a while it will... until some inventive technologist invents something to get around government policies. It's very interesting for me to watch "US" companies get turned into China's little helpers in their campaign to keep the lid on the internet. To wit, the "Don't be evil" folks at Google tweaked their search engine results to omit distasteful terms like "democracy" etc.. Friendly, laid back Yahoo! on the west coast has a subsidiary in China who turned over names of cyberdissidents to the government. The rounded up rascals are serving long jail sentences now. Yahoo! hides behind the tired, well-used refrain of all big companies "We don't have control over the day-to-day operations of our subsidiaries." The subsidiary recently was cleared of wrong doing because it did not violate "local privacy" regulations. Even "Where do you want to go?" Microsoft has been helping to censor Chinese blogs.. The China development will have exactly the effect the government there is looking for I think: modulation of speech on blogs. At least for a while it will… until some inventive technologist invents something to get around government policies.

It’s very interesting for me to watch “US” companies get turned into China’s little helpers in their campaign to keep the lid on the internet.

To wit, the “Don’t be evil” folks at Google tweaked their search engine results to omit distasteful terms like “democracy” etc..

Friendly, laid back Yahoo! on the west coast has a subsidiary in China who turned over names of cyberdissidents to the government. The rounded up rascals are serving long jail sentences now. Yahoo! hides behind the tired, well-used refrain of all big companies “We don’t have control over the day-to-day operations of our subsidiaries.” The subsidiary recently was cleared of wrong doing because it did not violate “local privacy” regulations.

Even “Where do you want to go?” Microsoft has been helping to censor Chinese blogs..

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