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Porn Links Are Still Readily Available On Google China
Posted in The Vance Report on 01/09/2009 05:27 pm
It was very nice of Google to apologize to China this week for allowing ’smut’ links to appear in its search listings. The question is, did Google actually make any effort to modify its search listings in China? Search results for the word ’sexy girl’ causes one to wonder if Google was simply giving lip service to the Communist giant. These are from the top 10 results:
Not that I am condemning Google. If I were them, I would tell the CCP to ‘get lost.’ Besides, who needs to look for porn on Google in China when you can simply step out your front door and buy it on a VCD around the corner?
The point is, the CCP has tried to control the web before but their efforts rarely make any difference. Sure, they might manage to block a site or few but at the end of the day, whether it is porn or information on the Dalai Lama, people in China can pretty much access whatever they want to find. Good for them, I say. They have been in the dark for far too long.
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01/12/2009 at 5:25 am
You can’t buy porn (technically) in China but there are small brothels everywhere. Weird that they want to prevent you from buying something as basic a Playboy but don’t seem to mind if you visit the 20 yuan brothels filled with bored looking peasant girls.
01/14/2009 at 5:42 pm
I’m an Eastern Orthodox Christian, and one day I wanted to look up Orthodox Church information in China and all I came up with was something about orthodox porn etc. - I guess their better at blocking anything to do with Christ, than they are with things to do with sex related money making stuff.