I'm sorry, I didn't mean to devalue the 'interestingness' of your post. So I suppose I owe you two putups ;)
1. I didn't know what Baidu was, let alone expect a search-engine to have so much more traffic than Google, although it doesn't surprise me given China's agenda.
2. I thought your 'bar scene' metaphor was very clever.
For the most part though, China's behavior does not surprise me, and although I have never been to China the current contract does a majority of it's business in China and even has an office there. Where one my duties was 'unblock their web-site from the internet' because their site was hosted here in the states and shared an IP with a naughty domain name. If China really thinks they can censor the internet, so be it, it's a pipe dream thanks to proxy servers that remain unblocked. China's effort is merely an inconvenience if a citizen is so inclined to getting the information they want on the web.
As far as Google goes, at least they tried and I salute them for at least making the effort, no matter how many features they removed and constraints they implemented at least they tried to show the people of China what they were about, and I am hoping they are not going to give up in that regard. If anything I think Google should wage an 'information war' on China in order to reverse the Governments efforts of censoring the web.
EDIT: just realized that you replied to a deleted post and not my own. :3
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I thought the idea of normalizing the statistics per capita was interesting. How did that strike you?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to devalue the 'interestingness' of your post. So I suppose I owe you two putups ;)
1. I didn't know what Baidu was, let alone expect a search-engine to have so much more traffic than Google, although it doesn't surprise me given China's agenda.
2. I thought your 'bar scene' metaphor was very clever.
For the most part though, China's behavior does not surprise me, and although I have never been to China the current contract does a majority of it's business in China and even has an office there. Where one my duties was 'unblock their web-site from the internet' because their site was hosted here in the states and shared an IP with a naughty domain name. If China really thinks they can censor the internet, so be it, it's a pipe dream thanks to proxy servers that remain unblocked. China's effort is merely an inconvenience if a citizen is so inclined to getting the information they want on the web.
As far as Google goes, at least they tried and I salute them for at least making the effort, no matter how many features they removed and constraints they implemented at least they tried to show the people of China what they were about, and I am hoping they are not going to give up in that regard. If anything I think Google should wage an 'information war' on China in order to reverse the Governments efforts of censoring the web.
EDIT: just realized that you replied to a deleted post and not my own. :3