Compare these two searches:

1. Regular Google search: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

2. Censored Google search: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

Quite scary, wouldn’t you say? And they are the same search. One censored, the other not.

Now, my personal stance in the whole censoring deal is basically this: embrace the customs (and laws!) of the place in which you set foot. It is futile and ignorant to get upset about a company that simply abides by the local laws of the country in which they’re making business.

Or that is what I think, at least.

Update: The two links above were originally (perhaps) posted at http://buzz.bazooka.se/.

There’s now an LJ syndication account for this blog, thanks to the LJ user Gabychka. T’is here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kalleblog/profile

(and yea, this is kind of a test to see if it works at all)

According to a Swedish news channel, the announcement about Google being censored in China was apparently censored in China.

The word “adultward” is more referring to adulthood, and the moving toward that concept. I still consider myself a child in many ways, and I doubt I will ever feel that I am, fully, an adult. But I am changing, and I feel that many of these changes turn me inevitably (and perhaps unwillingly) in that direction.

In any case, this is my new blog (can you say that in any possible way without sounding cheesy? Enlighten me!) and stuff.