Google to cut China porn results

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13 points·iamcalledrob··5 comments

With a huge population of angry men who can't get wives, this is a really dumb move from the view point of helping preserve the power of China's ruling party. They have enough riots and discontent as it is.

> The news comes as China tries to make sure all new PCs sold in the country are fitted with filtering software.

Scary. I wonder if it's (1) actually mandatory to use the software, (2) just a requirement for OEMs to make the software available or (3) optional, but on by default so most will end up using it.

Next paragraph in the article

"A popular outcry over the PC filtering plan prompted the Chinese government to clarify that, although the surveillance software will ship with every computer, it does not have to be used."

So I guess it will be 3.

optional, but on by default so most will end up using it.

They're betting on laziness and ignorance. That's a smart bet! They probably learned it by watching the US. ("No one's ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public.")

I joke with my girlfriend and my friends that my current relationship is fated to last, because it's based on a force even stronger than love: procrastination.

If Google can do this for China, how come it cannot do it it for my "safe search" image results when I am at work.

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