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Google never left China to be exact, although google.com.cn is currently a symlink to google.com.hk, which its internet governance is under HK's Common Law. One

by yeukhon 11y ago

Google never left China to be exact, although google.com.cn is currently a symlink to google.com.hk, which its internet governance is under HK's Common Law. One may argue that HK is under China's governance, but I have not seen anyone complaining about Internet censorship (political correctness is a different thing).

gkop 11y ago
> a symlink Like, a cname?
- yeukhon 11y ago
  It's a slang I use to mean for various of things :-) like aliases. I am an infrastructure person. Actually google.com.cn is not a CNAME to google.com.hk. You have to click on the image they put on .cn which redirects you to .hk.
  - gkop 11y ago
    I too like symlink as a useful general purpose reference point that's more specific than pointer. In this case though it's a bit dissonant since there is a direct analog in the domain of DNS (cname). Thanks for the clarification!
    - yeukhon 11y ago
      Hey no worries! I got carry away :-)