Google Gives Up Fight Against Chinese Censorship 96
judgecorp writes "Google has abandoned its policy of warning Chinese users against keywords that trigger censorship. The search giant had added a warning that advised Chinese users not to use search terms that could cause the Chinese authorities to shut off their access to Google, but has now abandoned these warnings. While Google says they were ineffectual, free speech campaigners have expressed disappointment."
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM (Score:4, Interesting)
Make 'em your BUSINESS MODEL.
Google, selling you out since 2003.
Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that technically, it is indeed all legal, but she emphasized that people don't really understand how their random thoughts, disclosures or opinions on social media may be exploited.
"I think people don't realize when they sign up for these sites that the government is going to be routinely monitoring and sifting through this data," she said.
"If Coca-Cola is reading all my tweets," Dan Zarrella points out, "it's not as scary as if the DOD is reading all my tweets, right?"
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121113/DEFREG02/311130003/Unwitting-Sensors-How-DoD-Exploiting-Social-Media [defensenews.com]
Re:SSL (Score:4, Interesting)
Using SSL is ineffective, because the Chinese firewall active sends connection reset packets to disrupt your SSL connection.