Google CEO to confer with lawmakers regarding plans for China and bias against conservatives

[nir]

CEO Sundar Pichai is set to testify at a public hearing later this year. Before that, though, he will also meet with a group of Republican lawmakers to allay their concerns about certain issues.

 

Google has been in the political spotlight in recent months after none other than President Trump himself accused the internet giant of biasing search results against not only him but also conservatives in general.

 

The other political hot potato Google is currently juggling is the issue of its plans for re-entering the Chinese market with a censored version of its search engine, a move that has already caused controversy among human rights and privacy advocates.

 

Much has also been said of Google's apparent double standards in refusing to work with the Pentagon over its drone program following employee backlash, in contrast to its readiness to work with the Chinese government. This will likely also be among the issues foremost on the lawmakers' minds.

 

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[steven36]

Bing is still in China

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Why is Bing available in China but Google is not?

 

Harvey King, born in Taiwan, grew up in US, family rooted in mainland China for centuries.

 

Answered 9w ago

Because Microsoft is fully cooperate with Chinese government.

It means Microsoft host its server in China, and they allows Chinese government employees (censors / consent-content bloggers) to monitor Microsoft servers.

Thus, all the information Bing presented is something approved by the PRC regime.

As someone who grew up in US and actually appreciate freedom of speech, I loathe mainland China’s internet policy personally and emotionally, I want to look down upon Microsoft for kowtowing to PRC.

On the other hand, as a private, profit driven company, one shouldn’t blame Microsoft for operating in China according to the local law. In fact, that is what every foreign company SHOULD be doing. Microsoft nor any other private company are policy arm of US government, and shouldn’t be held accountable for doing the right thing locally.

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Bing-available-in-China-but-Google-is-not

Years ago  Congress questioned , Microsoft  , Yahoo and Google about being  in China... 

The reason Yahoo China shut down  Alibaba bought them out for $7.6 billion..

https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/01/yahoo-china-shuts-down-its-web-portal/

They fully complied with the Chinese government as well

 

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Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial material online.

 

In 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an engineer by profession, posted electronic journals in a Yahoo! group calling for democratic reform and an end to single-party rule. He was arrested in September 2002 after Yahoo! assisted Chinese authorities by providing information. In September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years in prison.

On April 18, 2007, Xiaoning's wife Yu Ling sued Yahoo! under human rights laws in federal court in San Francisco, California, United States.Wang Xiaoning is named as a plaintiff in the Yahoo! suit, which was filed with help from the World Organization for Human Rights USA. "Yahoo! is guilty of 'an act of corporate irresponsibility,' said Morton Sklar, executive director of the group. "Yahoo! had reason to know that if they provided China with identification information that those individuals would be arrested."

 

Yahoo!'s decision to assist China's authoritarian government came as part of a policy of reconciling its services with the Chinese government's policies. This came after China blocked Yahoo! services for a time. As reported in The Washington Post and many media sources:

The suit says that in 2001, Wang was using a Yahoo! e-mail account to post anonymous writings to an Internet mailing list. The suit alleges that Yahoo!, under pressure from the Chinese government, blocked that account. Wang set up a new account via Yahoo! and began sending material again; the suit alleges that Yahoo! gave the government information that allowed it to identify and arrest Wang in September 2002. The suit says prosecutors in the Chinese courts cited Yahoo!'s cooperation.

Human rights organizations groups are basing their case on a 217-year-old U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an effort the Bush administration has opposed:

In recent years, activists working with overseas plaintiffs have sued roughly two dozen businesses under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which the activists say grants jurisdiction to American courts over acts abroad that violate international norms. Written by the Founding Fathers in 1789 for a different purpose, the law was rarely invoked until the 1980s.^[19]

On August 28, 2007, the World Organization for Human Rights sued Yahoo! for allegedly passing information (email and IP address) with the Chinese government that caused the arrests of writers and dissidents. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco for journalists, Shi Tao, and Wang Xiaoning. Yahoo! stated that it supported privacy and free expression for it worked with other technology companies to solve human rights concerns.

 

On November 6, 2007, the US congressional panel criticised Yahoo! for not giving full details to the House Foreign Affairs Committee the previous year, stating it had been "at best inexcusably negligent" and at worst "deceptive

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!#Work_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

 

Only reason Google is not still in China is they got hacked by the Chinese and got mad  and  stop censoring the search engine and China blocked them

 

Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China After Hack Attack

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/google-censorship-china/

 

All these Tech Giants could care less about your human rights alll they care about is money, 

 

There talking with Yandex right now about  building  censorship filters for Russia .

https://torrentfreak.com/google-yandex-discuss-creation-of-anti-piracy-database-180924/

 

Google, World's Biggest Censor, Was Founded & Funded By The CIA

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/09/18816396.php

 

The reason they going after Google theirs more too it than being said,  is got to do with  they cancelled  contracts with the US Government  but they  trying get back in China when Google was funded and founded by the CIA.. The CIA used  the US peoples tax dollars to fund it.. Google lost there way some years  ago when they made censorship filters  and they stop giving relevant results in the free world ,  that's why I use  duckduckgo and searx   Google search  or News is no longer any good only thing they have that's any good is images and they try to fix that were you couldn't use them,  so you have to use user scripts to get around it.  When you use there products your using Google service  in a product  everything they make  you can find a alternative minus the Google services. It's freaking legal spyware.

 

What they do they use there search to push non Google alternatives down the page so they don't look appealing  and on smart  phone they are even smaller and look less appealing. Who wants to go to page 10 to get results ...

 

The reason Google Chrome came number 1 browser was because they had better advertisement than anyone else , when you used Firefox or IE they would ask do you  want to download it . if you installed many free software they try to trick you into installing it.  All it is a Google service wrapped  in the chromium browser. All there smart phones are is a Google service wrapped in  Android . They open sourced the base and built spyware on top of it . Since most Android apps  require a Google service to run you can't really make a good open source version of Android  because Google has all the software vendors paid off almost.