Et le Guardian, nous apprends dans l'article dédié à cette news que:
"Now, however, Google will actively assist the government to limit content. There are technical precedents. In Germany, Google follows government orders by restricting references to sites that deny the Holocaust. In France, it obeys local rules prohibiting sites that stir up racial hatred. And in the US, it assists the authorities' crackdown on copyright infringements.The scale of censorship in China is likely to dwarf anything the company has done before. According to one internet media insider, the main taboos are the three Ts: Tibet, Taiwan and the Tiananmen massacre, and the two Cs: cults such as Falun Gong and criticism of the Communist party. But this list is frequently updated.
In a statement, Google said it had little choice: "To date, our search service has been offered exclusively from outside China, resulting in latency and access issues that have been unsatisfying to our Chinese users and, therefore, unacceptable to Google. With google.cn, Chinese users will ultimately receive a search service that is fast, always accessible, and helps them find information both in China and from around the world.""
J'en retiens deux choses:
1) Les résultas de Google France (et Allemagne) ne sont pas toujours "naturels"! ( Cela induit cette question:
sont ce des sites en Francais, qui sont exclus de l'annuaire?
Ou sont ce des sites dans l'annuaire qui ne sont pas donnés en réponse à des internautes identifiés comme Français -cf google videos théoriquement non accessible aux francais- ?)
"L'éthique, l'éthique, l'éthique!!"... Enfin en Chine et ailleurs on peut s'arranger...
Big brother? (l'article de Buck est illustrant ;) , a lire aussi l'article très complet d'Affordance.