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Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, told the Wall Street Journal that Chinese practices reminded him of what Russia was like under Soviet Union commissars.
He said that in the aftermath of the Summer Olympics in 2008, China started clamping down more on web censorship and "interfering" with Google's business.
He said that tracking dissidents and censorship bore all the marks of totalitarianism and that bothered him.
Brin left the Soviet Union in 1979 when he was six - and when the Soviet Union was pursuing a policy of anti-semitism.
Google believed it could open up information in China but after the 2008 Olympics he claimed China told the company it needed extra permits.
He said that when Google discovered a hack attack had as its purpose looking at dissidents' emails, he and the company had had enough.
China is not going to like this. Certainly, China has had a very long history of censoring web sites that don't fit the views of the dictators that run the country. Google knew this well before the 2008 Olympics and it's interesting it casts itself in a Goodie Two Shoes light.
Some - that's us - have compared Google to Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984 because its software always seems to be watching you, in some way or another, and linking everything to everything else without anyone really knowing what it is doing.
The Wall Street Journal is here (subscription required).
For me, not much at all.
For a better and complete understanding of the situation, NQ Logic encourages you to read "Google Vs. China" at www.nqlogic.com
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yet on higher level, 20 story building abound, 100 miles by 200 miles one every sq mile. filled with low cost, highly skilled specialist, figuring out how to stop, eradicate world. Take harvest back to china. only recently has mONEY become foe of china, whom uses little money thru national Price Control. Waste, near zero.
Not pretty war, Embarkation teminal. People hate one another. China plays Hate game by displays of Arts, goofy mice & droolsum cineomatography. No One gets to Know, if do, Zap goes bug zapper, teaching people thievery is capitalism, well theres NO Capitol, just playactors begging, give it up & intenet is perfected method of home survielence. give it up, google, China BAD Enough, Who Needs TWO, or Three or four....
Learn & Grow at least ALL Building in US are Now occupied, Not By citizens whom built them, yet occupied. If internet had way, BAD Movie Channel be Only Movie channel, only in 3D, of Course. Educated scholars in fiels such as Urban Anthropolgy or American Studies, Ph.d ,Full Professor figured out tune & Died, en masse', Whole Departments nationwide dissappeared, contray to informed, blind public remains, seeking others property. coveting & confused. Developing successful methodology from unwashe & One Against Well Professionalize criminal class, will stalin or Pol Pot or Charlie orMung hate monger strike again, happening every day. Public fantasizing upon Brutus in Open Senate, well, maybe NOT Likely, Augustus, yet story urgeing Familys to self destruction. 4 word phrases never forgotten. YBS. yet bee sorrowfull, most educated fall to cheering crowd, more,more,more. Necrolaw, New Field of Growth. Google of Hodo or Baidu, seperate,sort & EAT.
drashek
That's a bit of a stretch. Sure Google collects information about its user's habits, but probably just to sell to advertisers and marketers for their never-ending quest to understand the consumer.
Google is not a network of video cameras with facial recognition that spies on citizens and reports political dissidents, although China's Communist Party does exactly that.
Also, I'm pretty sure that some computer scientists and nerds understand exactly what Google is doing when it is "linking everything to everything else".
They just cross-reference their searches. Hardly a sinister totalitarian Ministry Of Searches or something.