FC: More on China's redirecting of Google to third-party sites

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Related Politech message:

"Journalist group asks China about blocking access to Google"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03960.html

Also see the lawsuit the ACLU filed with Ben as a plaintiff:

"New DMCA case: ACLU protects right to study filtering software"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03794.html

-Declan

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From: "Ben Edelman" <edelman () law harvard edu>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: More on China's redirecting of Google to third-party sites
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:23:59 -0400

Declan,

Coverage on news.com (<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957237.html> -- from
Reuters) and elsewhere reflects that requests for Google in China are now
met with pages other than the genuine Google site.  With my ability to
access the Chinese network, I have prepared a series of screenshots showing
the other services that, in my testing, were provided in response to
requests for Google.  They're quite striking -- it's incredibly odd to see
other pages below the Google heading in the Address Bar! -- and so I thought
your readers might be interested.

The screen shots are available at
  <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/google-replacements/>.


Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman




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