The Chinese Minitrue on the recent Google events (Click the link for more)
Google has officially announced its withdrawal from the China market. This is a high-impact incident. It has triggered netizens’ discussions which are not limited to a commercial level. Therefore please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this period:
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B. Forums, blogs and other interactive media sections:1. It is not permitted to hold discussions or investigations on the Google topic
2. Interactive sections do not recommend this topic, do not place this topic and related comments at the top
3. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which attack the Party, State, government agencies, Internet policies with the excuse of this event.
4. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which support Google, dedicate flowers to Google, ask Google to stay, cheer for Google and others have a different tune from government policy
5. On topics related to Google, carefully manage the information in exchanges, comments and other interactive sessions
6. Chief managers in different regions please assign specific manpower to monitor Google-related information; if there is information about mass incidents, please report it in a timely manner..
The Chinese Minitrue instructions to the media during the National People’s Congress (Click the link for more)
A portion was posted on the Internet, and independently confirmed and translated by the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. Annotations by The Times are in brackets.
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7. Delete news related to the youtan poluo flower. [Buddhist lore says this rare and auspicious flower blooms once every 3,000 years. Reports that a nun at a temple in southern China found a cluster of the tiny flowers under her washing machine set off a recent stir in the press. Chinese officials are concerned about the spread of superstition.]
8. For the “poisonous cowpea incident” in Hainan, only use news articles from the Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and the official Hainan media. [Cowpeas from Hainan Province were found to be contaminated with a toxic pesticide, setting off criticism about why the cowpeas were sold to other provinces.]
9. Do not feature news reports on major incidents in Beijing during the two meetings, including “staffer at Xidan Books Building hacks manager to death” or “accident at Shunyi car showroom, one man dies.” Do not highlight the timing of these events.
News – nuns in China have washing machines.
I had an image of a queen bee issuing orders to the Hive.
I’ve read you can’t have a robust “free” economy without a free society. That may play out here as the “economy” is not free what with all the import/export/monetary controls.
The mix and match of free vs controlled in the context of 1.5 Billion rising up from poverty will be interesting to monitor.
Can we say, “Second Cultural Revolution”? I knew you could.
Can we say its none of our god damned business how another country governs its populace.
If google intend to break chinese law by providing unfiltered results (after agreeing with the government to ONLY display self censored results), then it should get booted out of that country after being dragged through the court system.
After all, isn’t that what americans would want if a chinese company moved into the US, agreed to abide by the law, and then started breaking the law willfully.
I’m not pro-china-government in any way, but its THEIR country, THEIR laws.
Hey Zbtch, you’re a real moran aren’t you?
Good for Google. American companies should not be colluding with the Chinese Communist government in policing their people.
I hereby formally dedicate a flower to Google.
Sounds like the rules for most locals schools depts.
I am wondering when the USA will wean itself a bit from Chinese made products (and Chinese funded debt).
@#5 Father
“Hey Zbtch, you’re a real moran aren’t you?”
Cut him some slack, I bet eventually he can connect the dots.
But I’ll give him a hint: for China to be a good trading partner they need to treat our companies well and with respect like how we treat Chinese companies in the USA.
China is so self-absorbed, they think the controversy is all about China. Actually it’s about Google & how it “feels” (insofar as much as a corporation can “feel”) about censorship:
We tried your censorship for awhile but it don’t feel right to us. We outta here.
I bet they end up leaving Hong Kong too, eventually. Good on them if they do.
All your bucks are belong to us.
Honestly, I think the funniest part of this article is the fact that it’s actually called the Ministry of Truth. What self respecting autocracy doesn’t realize that the moment you name something the Ministry of “Truth,” or, “Peace,” it’s so beyond irony that Alanis Morissette’s head explodes?
#13. It is of course, straight out of George Orwell’s predictions for 1984 but 35 years before that date.
Google now has the moral high ground & have nothing to apologize for.
“We could censor but we wouldn’t feel right about OURSELVES if we did.”
It’s frickin’ genius. Makes the Chinese gov’t. look like the manipulative control freaks that they in fact are.
#4 I hope they send you to a Gulag. I will laugh real hard everytime you complaint about your government. Fool!
I guess Nixon opening up to china in 1973 had no real effect at all eh?
#15 What high ground?!
They capitulated to the demands of the Chinese government to get into China to begin with. Its too fucking late for them to have the moral high ground when they took the low road to get into China to begin with.
Why the hell is google being held up as a good company when they do shitty stuff in order to maximize profits and then do an about face when called out on it (buzz anyone?).
Google “was always at war with Eastasia.”
# 14 ramuno said, on March 25th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
“#13. It is of course, straight out of George Orwell’s predictions for 1984 but 35 years before that date.”
@18 “Why the hell is google being held up as a good company when they do shitty stuff in order to maximize profits”
Educate thyself and come back when you’ve found the answers. You could certainly answer your own question.
Maybe Google is rather generous with providing free resources or at least more liberal use of their resources than typically any company in the past ever has … Google Earth (free satellite data), Google Books (access to a ton of books for free), Gmail set the email storage bar way high back when Hotmail offered 4 MB and Gmail offered 2 GB. Android? Open Source. Chrome browser? Open Source.
Your level of knowledge on Google is embarrassingly poor.
You should make efforts to become less ignorant.