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Both of those urls are blocked to me ("Connection was reset").
by garply 17y ago
Both of those urls are blocked to me ("Connection was reset").
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- Groxx 17y agoStatus page as of "now": http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5748/screenshot01u.png http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5748/screenshot01u.png Text content of the blog post (sans links): On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn. So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over. Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we've faced—it's entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China. In terms of Google's wider business operations, we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there, though the size of the sales team will obviously be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk. Finally, we would like to make clear that all these decisions have been driven and implemented by our executives in the United States, and that none of our employees in China can, or should, be held responsible for them. Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, they have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers. We are immensely proud of them.
- garply 17y agoThanks for the text, but I have a US proxy. Btw, imageshack is blocked too.
- saumode 17y agotranslation into non-bullshit-speak: In the past 75 years, the self-proclaimed "democratic" fascist regime of china has fucked their people, and their neighbors. 3 months ago, they also fucked us. We are very surprised. We now stop censoring stuff, in the hope that the masses of chinese internet users will search for "Tiananmen 1989", "tibet deaths" and "is it ok to invade foreign taiwan" instead of their regular searches for pop stars, warez and porn, then recognize the truth and topple their non-elected regime. Your queries might take 0.8 seconds instead of 0.3 during the transition. We had lots of fights whether to stand up for basic civic liberties or make lots of dough. We want all people to give us dough, yet all that insta-justice > public execution > organ harvesting - business has made us throw up just a little bit. We also started a public page so that the whole world can see the evil chinese censors at work, and look angrily at them. Never mind that the actual people that could do anything about it - the chinese people - will never catch a glimpse of that page. We hope to keep our chinese people employed. They make our dough, after all. Please Hu Jintao, killer of countless innocents, don't harm them - in addition to the dough, we take the blame. Although we have heard that you already planned to kill a few of them as "american spies" just pour encourager les autres.
- noaccount 17y agonow we have a tools bypass gfw named west-chamber