The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about Google’s apparent caving in to the Chinese government’s request that they censor their search results. I’m of mixed feelings about this. Being radically moderate and having spent time in China, I think it’s silly to have a binary view of how things should be done there. (Though I’ve always thought Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” stance was a bit pompous and destined to fail.)
That said, I had a very visceral reaction when I came across the links below on a Slashdot thread.
Here’s a Google image search of “tianenman” as in Tianenman Square: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Here’s that same search on Google’s Chinese site: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Where did the tanks go?