China�s search engine censoring continues: "China's search engine censorship continues
Google and Yahoo in unholy alliances.
For several years the Chinese regime has been oppressing their citizens by censoring what they get to access online. Now internet giants like Google and Yahoo help facilitate this oppression in order to gain access to the Chinese market.
By Lars V�ge, InternetBrus
Search engine censorship
(February 27 2005) One of the strategies of the Chinese regime has been to cut off access to international search engines like Google and Altavista from time to time.
Now they also censor in a way that makes it impossible to get results for certain search phrases. This is not only the case with government approved search engines like the popular Baidu.com.
The scary thing is that the regime has succeeded in putting such pressure on global search engines like Google and Yahoo that they have conceded to make certain information inaccessible in some of their Chinese versions.
The organization Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF) has reported about this on at least three occasions during the last six months. RSF has demanded that Google clean up its act, but this has not been heeded in any way.
The case of Zhao Ziyang
The latest �victim� of this search engine censoring is the recently deceased Zhao Ziyang, who was China�s leader from 1980 to 1987.
Perhaps you do not remember him and you are not meant to either. He was arrested and placed under house arrest. This was because he had, though admittedly too late, tried to stop the Chinese military�s intervention on the Tiananmen Square in 1989. The intervention resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Chinese students.
When Zhao passed away after almost 16 years of house arrest, the Chinese regime didn�t want his death to cause any commotion like demonstrations at his funer"

Well, don't forget that it's Western Tech Companies who are instituting this technology. It won't be long before the war on terror will enable governments to censor pages that insite violence and hatred. Of course there's pages that are just pure hate, others of pages that might tell a different version of the truth. But of course ban these pages - they are bad and anti-Bush/Blair. Shameful!