> This is a forum for people to share information on GAE and solve problems.
Pot, kettle and all that unless you know how Google can subvert the "great firewall". On Apr 2, 8:48 pm, Andy <selforgani...@gmail.com> wrote: > No one is interested in hearing your "political/moral" preaching. > > This is a forum for people to share information on GAE and solve > problems. If you have anything of value to add to the discussion, feel > free to add your bits. If not, you won't be missed. > > So you "encourage me to take my business elsewhere"? > > Who are you - are you the spokesperson of Google? Is that the Google > official position on this matter? > > Or was that just another failed attempt of you at self-aggrandizement? > > 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 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
