Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Tad Chef
So China just renewed Google’s license to operate there. Google has tried to “abide by Chinese law” as they prefer to put it. Chinese law says: The communist party decides what’s the truth and what not. What’s not true shall neither be published nor searched for.
Are multinational corporations like Google good law abiding citizens? Rarely. Is Google abiding by the laws elsewhere? Well, just look at the other news today.
May I cite:
from BBC: “Google’s Street View ‘snoops’ on Congress members” (my emphasis):
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Tags: censorship, google china, google hong kong, laws
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Tad Chef
Enough is enough! YouTube, the monopolist of embedded video on the Web has censored the most popular Web video of 2009 (the JK Wedding entrance Dance). I have embedded it on SEOptimise as well a while ago. You can’t access it from Germany (where I live) anymore for “copyright limitations reasons”. Orwellian newspeak has been Google’s (the owner of YouTube) specialty ever since they collaborate with the Chinese dictatorship. Plus, you might have guessed it:
YouTube is awful for your SEO unless you want to get viral on YouTube.
There is a viable alternative around: Embedding an open source FLV player instead of the proprietary YouTube player everybody uses without thinking of the consequences:
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Tags: censorship, copyright, germany, video, youtube
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