Go Google Yourself China!

When someone really faked off my dad, his most common and fiercest reply was "Why don't you go fak yourself and see how that works out for you?" In the spirit of that feeling, I take the liberty of tweaking it a bit to apply to the latest row between Google and my favorite place on earth: China. You know, China,where the internet is free, and the rest of us are being unreasonable imperialist faks.

To China I say: "Why don't you go Google yourself and see what results for you?" However,before you do, I dare you to drop your censors first. Then, let's compare the before and after screenshots. Are you man enough to come out from behind the Great Firewall of China, officially known as the Golden Shield Project,and show us what results from random searches on some of your favorite keywords like taboo Tibet and Tiananmen Square just for kicks.

Lucky for us, someone's already done this for illustrative purposes. In these screenshots that show side by side results for the search term ‘Tiananmen Square protest' performed within China and then in the United Kingdom, guess what? You get VERY different results. Shocking! I'd say China's been caught red-handed.

As you can see, if you follow the link above, there are stark differences between the two. Within China,if you search for ‘Tiananmen Square' it appears to be a hopping tourist destination with pictures of temples and statues and smiling faces. What's missing here? Oh yeah, the pictures of protests and dead bodies that result if one's to search for the same thing on a computer in the UK. How can that be?

OK, so China admits that it censors - all while continuing to claim the internet is free -but it does so with its citizens' best interest in mind. How heartwarming! China's just trying to protect its sweet and innocent citizens from pornographic content. Oh,in that case, but but, I must be missing something here.

I'm looking at these UK results and maybe I'm not twisted enough but I don't see anything pornographic here. Were there sex acts occurring on the streets that day? Nope, couldn't mistake the Tiananmen protests for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. No flashing of breasts or oral sex occurring on nearby balconies. That's not it. Does China maybe have an underground population with a serious tank fetish? Or, are you censoring that which'd only be appealingly pornographic to necrophiliacs who might get off on viewing images of the corpses of the people you killed that day because they had the balls to stand up to your  faking bullshit? Is that the pornography to which you refer? Do you really have such a huge problem with necrophilia in your country or are you just full of shit? There is another possibility though- an innocent misunderstanding.

Perhaps you're not just the most repressive controlling faks on earth but rather are merely the victims of very inaccurate dictionaries. It'd make sense since your definitions of words often conflict with the universally accepted definitions of words. Maybe in Chinese ‘pornography' is more widely defined to include both lewd sex acts between cosmetically enhanced individuals performed against the common backdrop of cheesy music as well as ANYTHING that exposes China for the FAK it is. I can almost accept that as a possibility because your dictionary also seems to have a very faked up definition of the word ‘freedom.'