Paying extra money for a static IP address is something that I would happily cough up money for. Could Google create the functionality?
I am no expert on Firewalls and security but is this same type of blocking done with some corporate firewalls? I was under the impression that these countries buy their firewalls from the same companies which outfit corporate america. It is unfortunate that some politicians/employers choose to block their citizens/employees from viewing certain websites. Denying access to a whole portion of the web to people simply because of some poorly implemented IT policy is something that Google needs to deal with. How much adense revenue is google losing from this per year? = A How much would it cost to fix (or workaround) the problem? = B If A times 10 > B then fix it. Any chance of a response from Google? On Apr 2, 7:53 pm, Joe Bowman <bowman.jos...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
