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/.