Google in China

Google omits controversial news stories in China? Is it something new? News and information have been censored for years. We all know that Google has no choice but to obey the rules and regulations if they want to do business in China.

We often find unreasonable rules and regulations but we have no choice but to obey. Even in a democratic government, the only thing you can do is to choose another government during election. However, you have no right to change anything during non-election time. This is typical case of releasing little power to the public in exchange of a bigger political power. We just keep silent because this is what we can tolerate.

Most information is controlled from the source. If you have a say on the source, you can easily “filter” the information without letting anybody finding a trace and thus will not cause any controversy. If you do not have the control on the source, you can only filter out the information. This is obviously the only choice for most third world country governments.

For those of you, who still think there is uncensored information, feel free to visit this site and blame Google.