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Google , Inc . and China : Issues at Hand

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Google , Inc . and China : Issues at Hand

Introduction

A big part of the big if ' is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ) and its one-party rule over that country . Nevertheless , the CCP intends to incorporate the Internet and digital networks into its strategic economic

development plans and help it to become a significant element in the network society . Then-president Jiang Zemin is quoted in Foster and Goodman (2000 : xii cited in Hassan , 2004

.60 ) as saying that `Internet technology is going to change the international situation military combat , production , culture and economic aspects of our daily lives significantly . He omitted to mention `politics ' in his list , of course , and the CCP struggles , vainly , to control what growing numbers of Mainland Chinese read , see and hear on the Internet . In China , the popular search engine Google is classified as a media company and access is restricted . Until recently , Web- pages served by Google to users in China had to pass through filters set up by the Chinese government that eliminate information the State does not want people to see . In 2006 Google announced that it would set up a local site in China , to better serve the China market . The site would feature only sanitized ' search results that met the approval of the Chinese government . So next time you are in Beijing , try searching for Falun Gong , the social group that so upsets the ruling party , and see what , if anything you get (Meza 2007

.116 . Good has significantly yet unknowingly reached the bs of Chinese efforts to maintain the presence of communism and the innate government rule however , the unbiased and direct information imposed in the search engines of Google threatens all these political efforts (Hassan , 2004

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Background

Chinese users love the Google Internet search engine because it reads Chinese characters . In mid-2002 the Chinese government blocked access to Google and tried to limit access to the CNN and BIIC web site 's (Sloan 2002 cited in Hassan , 2004

.60 . However , for Chinese users with a minimum of Internet knowledge and a willingness to defy their government , it was simply a matter of a few mouse-clicks to detour around those sites blocked and limited by the authorities and search or browse through a Google , CNN and 61 mirror-site instead . Censoring the Internet 's content , especially its political content , seems set to he a constant (and ultimately unsuccessful ) rearguard action for the CCP (Hassan , 2004

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Google technologies could result in states being able to exert much greater influence through the Internet . Technology will advance to make censorship easier , even automated . Google has long promoted the ideal of access to information . Its mission , according to a Goggle attorney , is to organize the world 's information and make it universally useful and accessible...