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China Rebukes Google, Baidu for Not Filtering Pornographic Content
Posted 01/07/09 at 09:07:03 AM | by Pulkit Chandna
The Chinese government lambasted 19 Internet companies for not doing enough to curb pornography on the internet. It published the names of 19 companies, including Google and premier Chinese search engine Baidu, in an online statement on Monday. The Chinese government says that it wants a cleaner internet that can facilitate the proper development of minors.
The Chinese government also explained as to why each of the 19 companies figured in the list. For instance, Google is on the list as it hasn’t placed any filters to prevent pornographic content from appearing on its image search website.
Although Google had said in its riposte on Tuesday that the search engine enjoys no control over “the billions of pages in our index,” China’s Xinhua News Agency is reporting that all websites that were rebuked by the Chinese government, including Google and Baidu, have submitted their apologies.
Comments Print Email Screw China. Give me more
Submitted by Jox on Thu, 2009-01-08 20:09
Screw China.
Give me more boobies!
-Jox
lulz all i have to say =)
Submitted by nsk chaos on Wed, 2009-01-07 19:02
lulz
all i have to say =)
I'm confused here. Isn't
Submitted by teh 1337 haxxor on Wed, 2009-01-07 14:11
"Google is on the list as it hasn’t placed any filters to prevent
pornographic content from appearing on its image search website."I'm confused here. Isn't that what safesearch does?
Submitted by sdcat on Wed, 2009-01-07 14:47
May be China google didn't have the safesearch option?
Submitted by teh 1337 haxxor on Thu, 2009-01-08 13:29
lulz...For some odd reason, if you change Googles language to Chinese(simplified), there appears to be no safesearch options. However, if you change the language to Chines(traditional), there are safesearch options.
Submitted by sdcat on Thu, 2009-01-08 23:24
ok if that's the case then google China doesn't have the safesearch option.
The Chinese government says
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 2009-01-07 10:44
The Chinese government says that it wants a cleaner internet that can facilitate the proper development of minors.
translation...
We want a control internet with only our approved content avaiable.
Submitted by sdcat on Wed, 2009-01-07 14:50
Their country their rule, just like in your house you have your rule, all the same.
Submitted by Velcrow on Wed, 2009-01-07 12:46
This would be phase 1 then. Can't wait to see what they bitch about in phase 2.Heh
And what the hell are the search providers appoligizing for? They're friggin' search engines. If I search for something porn related, I better get some porn! There's plenty of parental control software out there. The search engine should NOT be responsible for filtering anything.
And I'd love to see how Google accurately filters porn images with obscure titles like 'img_1.gif'. I'm sure there's software to analyze images for this, but how do they detect between porn and a work of art? Or even softcore porn, which most lingerie stores would qualify as but are legit businesses.
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 2009-01-07 13:02
lingerie isn't lagit in comunist china :P
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