On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Martin Johnson <greatf...@greatfire.org> wrote: > This latest move was fully controlled by Google and can as such only be > described as self-censorship.
The impression I am getting from my contacts at Google is that this is not true. That is, Google apparently lost to Chinese Cyber experts in being able to keep this censored keywords system up, and decided to drop it altogether. PR team then, for whatever other reasons, decided to keep complete silence on the subject. Of course, one can then ask why didn't Google simply force HTTPS on Chinese users to begin with, but they probably considered complete block of Google by GFC too real a possibility, and were too afraid to lose market share. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
