{"id":178854,"date":"2018-08-03T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/03\/be-evil\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:41:00","slug":"be-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/03\/be-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HrLAvGO.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HrLAvGO.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/01\/google-china-search-engine-censorship\/\">planning to censor its search engine in China<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The project \u2013 code-named Dragonfly \u2013 has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google\u2019s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official, according to internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Teams of programmers and engineers at Google have created a custom Android app, different versions of which have been named \u201cMaotai\u201d and \u201cLongfei.\u201d The app has already been demonstrated to the Chinese government; the finalized version could be launched in the next six to nine months, pending approval from Chinese officials.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The planned move represents a dramatic shift in Google\u2019s policy on China and will mark the first time in almost a decade that the internet giant has operated its search engine in the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Google\u2019s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country\u2019s so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country\u2019s strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping\u2019s Communist Party regime deems unfavorable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Google needs to say, &#8220;Screw this,&#8221; and buy a white Persian cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is planning to censor its search engine in China: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project \u2013 code-named Dragonfly \u2013 has been underway since spring of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,611,487,364,387],"class_list":["post-178854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}