 GrepLaw |
|
|
|
This site is a production of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Please email if you have questions, contributions, or ideas about improving this site.
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
China Blocks Google--Then Routes to Replacement
|
|
|
|
posted by filter_editor
on Tuesday September 10, @11:47AM
from the bait-and-switch dept.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
< Changes in Cyber Security plans
| Sen. Judiciary Committee on DOJ & Wiretapping >
| |
|
|
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
|
|
China Blocks Google--Then Routes to Replacement
|
Login/Create an Account
| Top
| 6 comments
|
Search Discussion
|
|
|
|
The Fine Print:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
So, how does one sue a National government for trademark infringement, and in what court could this possibly take place? I'm guessing that if the Chinese government is responsible for this, then Google will have little practical recourse. Of course, it occurs to me that various Chinese ISPs may have taken advantage of the ban on google to point users to sites not banned by Chinese officials. Very, very interesting stuff.
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If one views the internet as a source or flow of information, then in this respect, it is similar to how one views other sources of media, TV, cable, etc.
To turn on CNN News only to find that you are being deliberately directly to someone else's new broadcast would seem to me to be a form of media hijacking that even the Chinese government does not condone.
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday September 12, @12:47PM (#282)
|
|
|
|
|
Reports are in that Google has been restored in China.
What was done was more like, "Can I have a Coke?" "Ok, here's a Coke" (and it's grapefruit). It's very possible that he "hijacking" of the domain google.com is a violation of copyrights, etc, in the international arena. Oh, wait, it's China...
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More than rumors. Last night (September 11) at about 11pm US Eastern time, I observed that the real-time testing system [harvard.edu] reported that google.com was accessible. A source in China confirmed this result at the same time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What does it mean for the internet if the address i type in is not the actual destination that i end up at? How can anyone be certain of the security of a transation on the web? And what if someone, or a government redirects the web address to not only something of its own choosing, but something that does not represent the owner of the domain name properly?
This would seem to me to be a hijack of the owners domain name, and website, and anyone or everyone using the internet should consider this a serious problem.
Add to this, to have this done at will by the worlds most populus nation, with the second largest number of internet users, and this quickly becomes a problem of global proportions.
And i have to ask myself, if a company like yahoo knew that this was a possibility, and so it has signed an agreement with the Chinese government to police itself. Does Yahoo agree with such actions? and in an effort to save itself it bent to the will of the Chinese government?
If these sorts of things are allowed, we will be left with an internet world where the no destination is secure, no online transations are secure, and companies are corerced into signing agreements with the biggest bully on the block.
It sounds like an era of lawlessness and recklessness will emerge in the internet world, if not only simple assumes are maintained, but have international binding laws that must be followed.
But it is nice to see that even the Chinese government would bend to the will of the people, let us just hope that companies like Yahoo will see this, and not feel the need to sign such agreements in the future.
- wei ai
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be
lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
|
 |
|
|
|
[
home |
contribute story |
older articles |
past polls |
faq |
authors |
preferences ]
|
