[IP] more on hello from Beijing
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Subject: Re: [IP] hello from Beijing
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:42:27 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@xxxxxxxxxx>
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To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: Hawkins, Dave <dhawkins@xxxxxxxx>
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Dave Farber wrote:
> From: Hawkins, Dave <dhawkins@xxxxxxxx>
> In my Beijing hotel room this morning CNN aired a piece about Yahoo
> calling for search engines to cooperate to deal with China's "search
> engine rules." Not surprisingly, as the correspondent was about to say
> the word "c**sorship" (my inference) the sound went blank for several
> seconds.
Well yes - but its not like TV news stateside doesn't have 5 second
delays and a liberal use of *bleep*s where necessary.
The great firewall of china is a fairly well known fact of life. And if
you have ever set up an internet business in china, or registered a .cn
domain name, you get to sign this interesting looking agreement first
that says "no porn, no politically sensitive content, must comply with
all applicable chinese laws" etc
srs
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