February 2006
Yahoo! seeks help to fight China censors - report - Forbes.com
"Yahoo! Inc has called on Internet, media and communication companies and the US government to work together to counter Chinese censorship on the web, the Financial Times reported".
January 2006
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by 1 otherGoogle removed its help entry on censorship.
OpenNet Initiative Blog » Blog Archive » Google.cn Filtering: How It Works
"For example, the domain news.bbc.co.uk has been removed from www.google.cn. Using Google’ “site:” modifier, a search for “site:news.bbc.co.uk” in google.cn returns no results and appears as if there is not such a website all".
Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists - If It Isn't Red, You Can't Read It on Google: William Pesek Jr.
"At the very least, Google should stop calling itself an Internet ``search engine'' in China. Its description should now be ``limited search engine'' or ``government-controlled search engine".
October 2005
NCL NEWS: Consumer Group Raises Copyright, Censorship Concerns about Google Print Library, Calls for Public Hearings
"In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues, [NCL] raised concerns about a forthcoming ambitious effort to catalogue the entire collections of four major American libraries".
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