{"id":699,"date":"2009-05-28T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/guorui\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-05-28T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:58:58","slug":"censorship-by-google-blogsearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2009\/05\/28\/censorship-by-google-blogsearch\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship by Google blogsearch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google blogsearch has been helping Chinese government censor internet. I only got to know this when I used\u00a0 Google blogsearch for blog posts on Deng Yujiao case. (About Deng Yujiao case, please see China: Netizens stand with the waitress who killed an official<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

After Chinese government started to filter the internet search results on Deng Yujiao case on baidu search results, I turned to Google blogsearch for the updates of the case. It suprised me when I found Google blogsearch shows no result (I put the Chinese character of Deng Yujiao “\u9093\u7389\u5a07” as search term). I was sure there were tons of blog posts every hour–I myself posted 5 in the past 4 hours, and I read more than 10 from various blog sites.<\/p>\n

Is Google helping Chinese government?<\/p>\n

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