Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China

Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by buster on Saturday March 13, 2010 @10:12AM (#1188985)

I have very mixed feelings about that. It's good when such a big company takes those measures. But in the end it will harm google more then it will do good, as no other company will follow.

And Chinas government may be very happy, the got rid of _the_ source for political information for the people and now can work further on controlling the rest.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by sern on Saturday March 13, 2010 @10:37AM (#1189024)

If Google quits, they will no longer be subject to Chinese law, which will open up all sorts of possibilities.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by csytan on Saturday March 13, 2010 @01:42PM (#1189344)

What sort of possibilities? I'm running some sites on Google's AppEngine, and recently found out that it is blocked due to the GFW. I don't see any signs of that changing, especially with this new policy.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by c1sc0 on Monday March 15, 2010 @11:18AM (#1193128)

Can anyone confirm that AppEngine does not work right now in mainland China? I've been thinking about moving to China for a while now and this would be yet another reason to stall on that decision. I know I can VPN out for Twitter / FB / Google, but that just seems such a hassle for an internet professional.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by gommm on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:13AM (#1194952)

AppEngine is not blocked from here... What is bloked in China is google group and some parts of google code (sigh)...

For accessing any website, I just use a ssh tunnel to a vps in the US and have almost no loss of speed or latency when reaching US websites... So it's really not a bother...

If you have any questions on living in China, you can get in touch with me, my email is in my profile...

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by sern on Saturday March 13, 2010 @09:19PM (#1190123)

I was thinking they could play an active role in smuggling information into China, for instance.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by idlewords on Saturday March 13, 2010 @11:23AM (#1189089)

Google Chine _the_ source of political information for the people? Why on earth do you think this?

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by buster on Saturday March 13, 2010 @12:40PM (#1189224)

If you didn't know: Google is all about finding, sharing and publishing information.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by gscott on Saturday March 13, 2010 @01:53PM (#1189361)

The Chinese Government control information flow in China. It is how the Government works. Google can do business in China in other ways they sell advertising for searches done outside of China on Google and they can create hardware devices to sell in China. But trying to distribute information in China or being a source of finding information in China is probably not as great of a business plan as say selling cars in China. Making and selling cars doesn't doesn't really bother the government too much.

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Re:Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China by est on Sunday March 14, 2010 @05:28AM (#1190505)

> _the_ source for political information for the people and now can work further on controlling the rest.

It never got control. Chinese people love gossip and rumors. The govn't just do not want anyone to discuss stuff 'publicly'.

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