Top 10 Consequences of Google Pulling out of China
Sunday, January 31st 2010 @ 9:18 AM (not yet rated)
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In the January 18th Streetwise Security Edge Townhall, we discussed, among other things, the consequences of Google's announcement that it may be pulling out of China.
Accordingly, here is this show's Top 10 list (not completely serious).
Top Ten Consequences of Google Pulling Out of China
10. If you listen carefully when you bring up a Google search page,
you can hear this sucking sound like a distant vacuum cleaner.
9. Taiwan says, "What do you mean Google's pulling out of China? We're
China too and Google is OK by us." US and other governments quickly
try to get Taiwan to quiet down so the People's Republic of China and
Wal-Mart aren't upset.
8. Google will have more time to spend on privacy & liberties issues
in the rest of the world as some people ask "Will Google stand up to
France and Italy, too?"
(See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jan/13/google-china-western-internet-fre edom
)
7. Google employees and execs start to see weird message in their
fortune cookies, such as "May a thousand worms dance harmoniously in
your server farms' RAM." and "You may make the software but a wise man
remember who makes your hardware and should not be ticked off."
6. Users of Google Earth start noticing interesting aerial views of
China. Crops mowed in ways to make messages mocking Google. Lot of
buzz about one design with a panda and the Google logo. Didn't know
that pandas could extend the middle digit in such a humanlike way.
5. China takes back the Google.cn domain registration from Google and
gives it to Microsoft. Bing will become the search engine of choice
for a billion more people.
4. Baidu.com, popular Chinese search engine, no longer has to compete
with Google.cn and will get lax. Baidu's logo will change from a paw
print to a picture of a sleepy well-fed panda.
3. Google's spiders will run 20% faster after the Great Firewall of
China is reconfigured to block out the "evil barbarian Google" and
Google no longer has to index Chinese Web sites.
2. No more evil botnet phishing links in Pay-Per-Click ads... well, not ones involving China. Russian cybercriminals say, "Specebo Google!"
1. Chinese Internet user no longer can see the nice "nothing happened
here in June of 1989, just look at nice happy photos from other times"
results when doing a Google.cn search on "Tiananmen Square". Instead
they will find new web-proxy sites to get around the Great Firewall of China and do the search on Google.com, getting quite a different picture.
Thanks to Jonathan Abolins for helping me out with this week's list.
If you have a Top 10 list idea, join our next weekly session and let us know!
Thanks,
Scott
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