Chinese censorship

[Gef]

Heres a classic example, awsome

What we see - http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

What they see - http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

 

[Whipped]

Hmm, maybe we should have a go at finding the best ones.

 

[Panda On Smack]

Pretty much anything rude

 

[tris-]

cow spunk

and its not what you think.

 

[Guest]

How do you know that we arn't being censored in some small way, you are brainwashed each day by news.bbc.co.uk

 

[ECA]

I read Xinhua, CNN, the beeb and al jazeera.

 

[Chilly]

I read Xinhua, CNN, the beeb and al jazeera.

all of the extremes so I hope you fit in somewhere in the middle?

 

[ECA]

all of the extremes so I hope you fit in somewhere in the middle?

Only xinhua has particularly biased stuff given the situation in China.
CNN isn't "too" bad.
Beeb rims labour after the bumming they took from the 45 minutes claim
Al Jazeera is pretty good though, if you want a non western take.
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
I definately wouldn't label it as particularly biased.

 

[Sar]

Unless you're on kidney dialysis in a cave in Afghanistan.

 

[Maljonic]

You have to remember though that in China, especially Beijing, Tiananmen Square is just a place like Trafalgar Square is here. Just because a really bad thing happened there doesn't mean nothing else has, it's a place in the middle of the city where all sorts happens. The tanks do still appear a few pages in.

Outside of China Tiananmen Square is only the place that had tanks going through it on the news, so obviously that is what people most associate it with and that is why those search results come up.

It would be the same the other way around if something really bad happened in Trafalgar Square with tanks or whatever, most foreign search results for Trafalgar Square would bring up the tanks or whatever, but the UK searches would most likely bring up all sorts of pictures of Trafalgar Square because we take pictures of it every day and all kinds of things happen there.

 

[Whipped]

Be-gone Logic Boy. Your sensible ravings have no place here!!

 

[ECA]

You have to remember though that in China, especially Beijing, Tiananmen Square is just a place like Trafalgar Square is here. Just because a really bad thing happened there doesn't mean nothing else has, it's a place in the middle of the city where all sorts happens. The tanks do still appear a few pages in.

Outside of China Tiananmen Square is only the place that had tanks going through it on the news, so obviously that is what people most associate it with and that is why those search results come up.

It would be the same the other way around if something really bad happened in Trafalgar Square with tanks or whatever, most foreign search results for Trafalgar Square would bring up the tanks or whatever, but the UK searches would most likely bring up all sorts of pictures of Trafalgar Square because we take pictures of it every day and all kinds of things happen there.

No difference between google.com and google.co.uk on trafalgar square image results ^_^

 

[Melachi]

Heres a classic example, awsome

What we see - http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

What they see - http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

Im in china right now, and if I load the first link I do get to see the pictures of the guy infront of the tank, but with the second link I dont.

There is somethings I noticed though, like wikipedia seems to be blocked no matter where I go here, also bbc news website loads, but half of the stories links dont work, like the whole current muslim cartoon thing, none of those links work on the BBC site, but all the other non controvesial news does work.

Google video gives me this if I try to load it: Actually it works now, but last week it used to pop up saying "Im sorry but this service is not currently available in your Country" or somethin along those lines.

There is definetly pretty tough censorship but its relaxing very quickly I think.

One example I can give, is XiangYang market, its a market in Shanghai that has lots of fakes, best place to get cheap fake clothes/dvd's/watches ect ect.

Anyway, pornography is banned in china, but just last week something new came to XiangYang. What usualy happens when you go in is every 5 steps you take some chinese guy/girl starts saying "DVD? Watch? belt?" Anyway, they must have just started getting a way of importing porn cause now they go "Watch? Belt? DVD? Sex DVD?", the first time my brother and me heard this last week we were in knots falling around the place laughing. But it really is a small way of showing China is becoming more and more western like.

Also, theres a book called "The wild swans" came out a few years ago, anyway my dad went to buy it, but of course its banned, because its about the cultural revelution and stuff, but the woman who wrote it is also banned from the country I think. He bought it in Frankfurt airport in the end I think

[edit]Hmmm, just tried to post this and it didnt work, I wonder