Apophenia " Blog Archive " Facebook and "radical transparency" (a rant) At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year.
I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I’ve watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic of the tech elite to a conversation that’s pervasive. The press coverage is overwhelming – filled with infographics and a concerted effort by journalists to make sense of and communicate what seems to be a moving target. I commend them for doing so. Google Obscures Decision Making Processes. Google’s recent action of redirecting google.cn traffic to servers in Hong Kong has raised much comment.
Google’s claim is that it is doing this so it doesn’t have to follow Chinese government demands to censor what it has online. The Chinese government, in its turn, has stated that it has the right to set the rules by which a corporation functions in its country. In the process of this dispute, the diverse views of the Chinese Internet users, of its netizens, appear to be missing from Google’s considerations. Some netizens in China posted an open letter to Google and to the Chinese government ministries, asking that each side in the dispute present, in an open way, what their views are so that the netizens can be part of the discussion and decision-making process.(1) Web : Home.