China and the other countries block content that they deem unacceptable for their citizens. In order to get appengine off the blacklist, they would have to disallow people to create applications which would be deemed offensive to those countries.
First, looking at it from the pure technical/business view, this would require that applications no longer post immediately, and be under review at each update at a minimum. This would potentially decrease the amount of applications served (thus decreasing revenue) while increasing costs to support the system. >From the political/moral view, Google has been a staunch supporter of rights to speech, and it wasn't that long ago that they were chastised for bending their own rules to support China at all by allowing the filtering of search results. Further expansion of their products having such filtering imposed by them would lead to more reputation damage. Reputation damage also costs money. So really, from two different perspectives, there's no business sense in worrying about if appengine applications are being firewalled by 6 out of the 150+ countries that exist in the world. As a customer you have every right to take your business elsewhere, and if making you application available in those 6 countries is of the importance that you need to, I encourage you to do so. Not every web application is going to be appropriate for appengine. There's 6 countries that support appengine, and can only write programs in python. Which is really the limiting factor of the application environment? On Apr 2, 7:16 pm, Andy Freeman <ana...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Why shouldn't this be google's problem? > > Suppose that I sold raincoats and you wanted to buy one of my > raincoats. If someone else got between us and stopped me from > delivering raincoats to you, who would you hold responsible? > > Google isn't doing the blocking. > > Yes, Google may be able to make more money if it can get around the > blocking, but that doesn't change the fact that the blocks are not > under Google's control. > > In other words, blocking may be a problem, that is an issue, for > Google, but it isn't Google's problem, that is, something that Google > has some obligation to do act upon. > > On Apr 2, 3:38 pm, Andy <selforgani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why shouldn't this be google's problem? > > > Google's hosting platform is being blocked by the country with the > > largest internet population in the world. You think that's not a major > > problem? > > > I've used plenty of hosting sites that are perfectly accessible from > > China. So obviously this is a problem for Google. > > > On Apr 2, 11:18 am, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > And why is this Google's problem?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
