Saturday, September 11, 2010

Google and Yahoo in China

I agree with censoring search results for search engines like Google and Yahoo in different countries. Every country has their own set of laws and regulations that their citizens follow everyday and I think that should include regulating the social media and networks. I can see how many people would be against this because some countries, like the United States have more control over what they can search and information they can find via the internet, but again I think it comes down to how much freedom the citizens have in other areas of life outside of the technological world. I don’t know all that much about China and the government and the laws that are given to the citizens in that country but I do know that they are more strict in at least some sense to the laws here in the U.S. so I think it only makes sense to be as strict with what people can search on the internet. In my personal opinion I don’t think it’s fair to have those kinds of restrictions on what kind of results pop-up with whatever word a person searches, but once again I probably wouldn’t agree with some of the laws they have in general. Overall I think every country should have their own regulations on the internet and how their citizens use it based on the laws they already have set in place because if not then I would think it would cause more problems to let the people be more free in what they search over the internet and could possibly cause more controversy.

1 comment:

  1. Your response reminds me of a concept from the StarTrek series... called the "Prime Directive." Their governing law is not to interfere in the culture of others.

    Good posts - next time please include the questions too! Thanks

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