Journal Entry; number o2
Date; Wednesday 17 2007
Listening to; Time Warp –Rocky Horror Picture Show
http://noluv4google.com/article.php?list=type&type=92
‘No luv 4 Google’, a campaign ran by ‘Students for a Free Tibet’. The website encourages people especially Tibetans international, about boycotting Google. Because of it’s launching in China which blocked sites containing Tibet and many other sensitive topics. I know it seems nearly impossible since Google is the most commonly used search engine on the internet. However these people have developed a deep disliking towards Google, and have gotten a lot of people into it. Last Valentine’s Day; Sydney to Toronto, protests were held against Google. People with picket signs with the words; “Google don’t be evil” to people waving the Tibetan flag. News stations and papers covered this protest, The Time Magazines’ words on the protest:
“The harder you look at it, the harder it gets to decide. First you have to figure out what exactly Google just did. Google already has a Chinese-language version of Google.com--it has had one since 2000. But the authorities weren't fond of it, so they blocked access to its cached pages, Google's stored copies of websites, which could be used to view otherwise censored material. Using its online filters--the so-called Great Firewall of China--the government also made Google run annoyingly slowly, and sometimes not at all. The new site, Google.cn, is physically based in China and runs speedily and reliably, but its contents are censored by Google to accord with government preferences. (A warning label informs the user of this arrangement.) So basically, China's Web surfers have a choice: they can use slow, relatively uncensored Google.com or speedy, sanitized Google.cn.”
-Time Magazines
It may be hard to believe, but there has been more drastic boycotts, for example the ‘made in China’ boycott. Starting not so long ago, now that boycott was impossible. Judging by it’s name. It’s obvious what it boycotted.
Date; Wednesday 17 2007
Listening to; Time Warp –Rocky Horror Picture Show
http://noluv4google.com/article.php?list=type&type=92
‘No luv 4 Google’, a campaign ran by ‘Students for a Free Tibet’. The website encourages people especially Tibetans international, about boycotting Google. Because of it’s launching in China which blocked sites containing Tibet and many other sensitive topics. I know it seems nearly impossible since Google is the most commonly used search engine on the internet. However these people have developed a deep disliking towards Google, and have gotten a lot of people into it. Last Valentine’s Day; Sydney to Toronto, protests were held against Google. People with picket signs with the words; “Google don’t be evil” to people waving the Tibetan flag. News stations and papers covered this protest, The Time Magazines’ words on the protest:
“The harder you look at it, the harder it gets to decide. First you have to figure out what exactly Google just did. Google already has a Chinese-language version of Google.com--it has had one since 2000. But the authorities weren't fond of it, so they blocked access to its cached pages, Google's stored copies of websites, which could be used to view otherwise censored material. Using its online filters--the so-called Great Firewall of China--the government also made Google run annoyingly slowly, and sometimes not at all. The new site, Google.cn, is physically based in China and runs speedily and reliably, but its contents are censored by Google to accord with government preferences. (A warning label informs the user of this arrangement.) So basically, China's Web surfers have a choice: they can use slow, relatively uncensored Google.com or speedy, sanitized Google.cn.”
-Time Magazines
It may be hard to believe, but there has been more drastic boycotts, for example the ‘made in China’ boycott. Starting not so long ago, now that boycott was impossible. Judging by it’s name. It’s obvious what it boycotted.
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