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星期四, 六月 08, 2006
外电报道古狗被封和古狗创办人Brin的反省
中国 | 08.06.2006 | 13:00 UTC
德国之声：Google创办人因中国业务开始反省
据德国Netzeitung的报道，Google搜索引擎的创建者之一Sergey Brin在“华尔街日报”对公司在中国的业务作了自我批评性的表述。他说：使用另外的方式是绝对理智的。为了进入中国市场，Google不得不同当局合作，合作的内容包括执行新闻检查或新闻自律。Brin承认，Google接受了中国的法律条件，“但我们是很不舒服的”。即便Google服从中国的法律，几天前，也不得不接受Google.com在中国遭受全面（暂时？）封锁的命运。
Brin还说，“我们开始时想，如果我们在原则上采取灵活步骤，换来的却是中国用户得到更多的信息以及我们更有效的服务。”他承认，看来忠实于原则的方式也许具有的意义更大。
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2047070,00.html
Google在华难觅平衡点 可能放弃Google.cn
作者:友亚 发布时间：2006.06.08 11:14:33 来源:赛迪网【赛迪网讯】6月8日消息，据外电报道，Google联合创始人塞吉·布林(Sergey Brin)日前表示，不能确定该公司在中国所实行的自我审查制度是否完全正确。从而引发了业界关于Goog le可能放弃在中国获得的Google.cn引擎的猜测。
据美国《国际先驱论坛报》报道，今年年度，Google在中国创建了 Google.cn域名，并针对中国市场的实际情况实施了自我审查制度，对一些敏感话题进行了过滤。众所周知，Google的格言是“不作恶！”因此， Google在中国市场也同时提供Google.com服务。目的就是希望能够在两者之间找到一个平衡点。
但是，本周Google似乎对自己在中国的策略有些不确定。赛吉-布林称：“我们当时认为，如果根据中国市场的实际情况作出一些变通，那么可能会为中国用户提供更多信息和更有效的服务。但从目前情况看来，也许坚持原则更为有效。”
布林还表示，在决定改变策略之前，Google还会继续完善当前的自我审查制度。如果实在无法找到一个平衡点，那么Google将另作打算。
另据布林透露，尽管同时提供Google.com和Google.cn服务，但只有1％的中国用户使用.cn服务。因为无论在数量还是质量上，Google.com都要优于Google.cn。
http://news.ccidnet.com/art/951/20060608/574935_1.html
CNN：Google co-founder: China censorship a compromise
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Posted: 1413 GMT (2213 HKT)WASHINGTON (AP) -- Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
Meeting Tuesday with reporters, Brin said Google had agreed to the censorship demands only after Chinese authorities blocked its service in that country. Google's rivals accommodated the same demands, which Brin described as "a set of rules that we weren't comfortable with," without international criticism, he said.
"We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service and perhaps make more of a difference," Brin said.
Brin also addressed Internet users' expectations of privacy in an era of increased government surveillance, saying Americans misunderstand the limited safeguards of their personal electronic information.
"I think it's interesting that the expectations of people with respect to what happens to their data seems to be different than what is actually happening," he said.
Google has battled the U.S. Justice Department in court seeking to limit the amount of information the government can get about users' Internet searches. The search engine's spokesmen also say it has not participated in any programs with the National Security Agency to collect Internet communications without warrants.
Google's free e-mail service is among the Internet's most popular.
Brin visited Washington to ask U.S. senators to approve a plan that would prevent telephone and cable companies from collecting premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for faster delivery of their services. Brin, dressed casually in jeans, sneakers and a black sport jacket, said he wasn't sure whether he changed any lawmakers' minds.
Google's China-approved Web service omits politically sensitive information that might be retrieved during Internet searches, such as details about the June 1989 suppression of political unrest in Tiananmen Square. Its agreement with China has provoked considerable criticism from human rights groups.
"Perhaps now the principled approach makes more sense," Brin said.
The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that Google's main Web site, www.google.com, no longer was accessible in most Chinese provinces due to censorship, and it was completely inaccessible throughout China on May 31.
Brin said Google is trying to improve its censored search service, Google.cn, before deciding whether to reverse course. He said virtually all the company's customers in China use the uncensored service.
"It's perfectly reasonable to do something different, to say, 'Look, we're going to stand by the principle against censorship, and we won't actually operate there.' That's an alternate path," Brin said.
"It's not where we chose to go right now, but I can sort of see how people came to different conclusions about doing the right thing."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/06/07/google.censorship.ap/index.html
金融时报：Beijing's censors accused of disrupting Google.com
By Mure Dickie in Beijing
Published: June 8 2006 04:23 | Last updated: June 8 2006 04:23
GraphicChinese internet users have had serious problems using Google's international search service, prompting speculation it is being disrupted by government censors.
Users in many Chinese cities have been able to access Google.com only intermittently in recent days.
The problems have not affected Google.cn, the US company's China-based search service, which is censored.
A Google spokesperson said on Wednesday: "We have heard reports of users in China experiencing problems in accessing Google.com. We are investigating this matter."
Beijing does not usually comment on which websites it blocks. But the problems suffered by Google are similar to those experienced by other websites targeted by censors.
China has disrupted Google's service before, blocking it completely in 2002 and redirecting visitors to China-based websites including Baidu.com. Beijing lifted the block amid protests by internet users and international publicity.
The current problems are the worst in recent years, prompting suggestions that Google's introduction this year of its censored service had emboldened Beijing to act against the unfiltered international version.
Reporters Without Borders, the media freedom watchdog, said: "It was only to be expected that Google.com would be gradually sidelined after the censored version was launched in January.
"Google has definitively joined the club of western companies that comply with online censorship in China. It is deplorable that Chinese internet users are forced to wage a technological war against censorship in order to access banned content."
Beijing blocks thousands of overseas websites and monitors internet cafés round the clock.
The censorship system was blamed by many users for problems accessing Microsoft's Hotmail service just weeks after President Hu Jintao visited Bill Gates' Seattle home.
Reuters this week quoted Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president, as saying that only 1 per cent of Chinese users used Google.cn, with most sticking with Google.com.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bbc6dabe-f69d-11da-b09f-0000779e2340.html
美国之音：China Warns Google Will Have to Abide by Chinese Web Restrictions
By Luis RamirezBeijing
08 June 2006
China's Communist leadership says Google and other Internet companies will have to abide by its laws, including Web restrictions, if they want to do business in the country.
The statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday came after a Google co-founder expressed doubts about his company's decision to offer a self-censored version of its search engine so it could operate in China.
The Chinese version of Google offered in this country gives access only to sites that do not contain what the government considers politically sensitive material.
Company officials have said they would monitor conditions in China before deciding whether to keep doing business in the country. On Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao offered no hope that Beijing might soften its policy of Internet censorship.
"Any cooperation on economy and trade should be conducted with the framework of the law," Liu says. "We also hope relevant companies operating and developing business in China can abide by Chinese law."
Google co-founder Sergey Brin this week said that in launching a Chinese version of its search engine recently, the company could perhaps compromise its principles but ultimately be more effective in providing more information to Chinese users. However, Brin said perhaps now the principled approach of not submitting to censorship - "makes more sense."
Google users this week reported the general, uncensored version of the search engine was blocked in many parts of China. Analysts speculated the blocking might be due to the sensitive June 4 anniversary of the Chinese army's bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. The government traditionally takes extra steps to prevent politically sensitive activities around the anniversary.
China routinely blocks thousands of Internet sites, including VOA's Web site, in an effort to control public access to information that is critical of the government. The Chinese government employs thousands of people to monitor the Internet, including e-mail, looking for material considered subversive.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-08-voa13.cfm