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Google's Moves Chinese Search Records So They Can Be Subpoenaed By The US
from the out-of-the-frying-pan... dept
If you were Google, where would you store your Chinese search data these days? As just about everyone knows, Google made the move into China recently with a somewhat scaled down (read: censored) version, leading to a bit of controversy. With Yahoo getting slammed for giving up info to the Chinese government, leading to the arrest of some political dissidents, it would appear that Google has begun to rethink where they should keep their Chinese search engine data. It looks like Google has gone with a compromise route, and is moving all of its Chinese search data out of China and into the US -- which still raises some questions. After all, it was just this week that the US Department of Justice claimed that no one should worry when it subpoenas search terms from Google here in the US -- something Google has fought vehemently. Perhaps the next suggestion would be for them to move the US data into China. Then everyone can subpoena whoever they want, and Google can claim the data is out of the country and they can't do anything about it. Wouldn't that solve everything?
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And there's one other benifit...you won't need as much cooling. I mean, that many servers has gotta use a lotta power on cooling fans...
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and a communist nation so they didn't have much of a choice whereas here in the U.S., Google
has the right to fight for their civil liberties
so stop bashing Google!
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Any how, why hasn't Google already declared itself a country?
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and a communist nation so they didn't have much of a choice whereas here in the U.S., Google
has the right to fight for their civil liberties
so stop bashing Google!
Have you actually read and understood why Google is under fire from all sides for doing this, or did you just read the Google Blog and give them the nod of approval?
It's blatant money hunger, not the path of "least evil" that they want to tout. I have no issue with money being the bottom line. I do have an issue with all this presumptuous bullshit trying to pretend that's not the bottom line.
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and a communist nation so they didn't have much of a choice whereas here in the U.S., Google
has the right to fight for their civil liberties
so stop bashing Google!
We've gone over this about fifty times, so I'm surprised it's still coming up... but... for the new folks...
People aren't upset that Google gave in. They're upset that Google gave in after talking about how they never would give in. It's that they went back on their word -- their word that gave them a lot of goodwill.
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I really do like the data haven idea. Something right out of Cryptonomicon.
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How about USA data then?
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Listen up Guys......this kind of discussion is basically mental masturbation.....whatever Google started out trying to do got usurped by the lust for money.....money corrupts and countless billions corrupts and distorts.....
If you want to have a meaningful discussion, debate the motion that no company or corporation can make profits of more than say 25% of its combined workforce salary....and that all profits over and above this amount be put into a large pot and distributed every year at christmas (or your religion's equivalent) to every man and woman on the planet.
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China arnt as likely to want someones search history (except for a certain bush led administration's IP ranges) and visa versa.
So yes the general public is a bit more happy, but you dont understand that they do get to make a nice little bit for it in return.
Where was google retistered as its main headquaters? because if im not mistaken mmost countries can get the information from any of the branches if they ask for it when the main registration is there.
So Americans arnt completely out of the loop there.
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A lot of people place unrealistic expectations on entities outside of themselves,
looking for a saviour or whatever, and then turn vicious when they are disappointed.
As near as I can tell, Google did a cost/benefit analysis of their involvement with China
that included moral and social accounting far beyond what any other company that size would even consider.
Did they make a decision you were happy with? Obviously not.
Should Google act so as to always confirm your prejudices and illusions about how the world should work? No.
Did Google make the right choice? We'll see.
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Stupid people
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Search Records
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