Brian Holmes on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:12:59 +0100 (CET) |
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John Young wrote: > A point in Google's favor: > > At 20:54 ET yesterday Google.CN lifted its ban on images of the > Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Ahem, that's a MAJOR point in Google's favor. Almost everyone surely realizes that any image of Tiananmen square massacre, or indeed, knowledge of the event, is restricted to people who use proxies - a large number, certainly, but a clear minority of the population judging by the sociological studies on exactly those images and that knowledge. It seems that a global corporation is now doing battle with a an extremely powerful state on the terrain of information. A rare event. Or there is an extremely convoluted strategy that we cannot yet understand. One way or another, how fascinating! best, Brian # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org