the black China hand

And now, a search for 家乐福 Carrefour in Google.cn does not show any of the 6 million results it shows in Google.com – instead, Google China returns a nearly blank page with a single message that if an automatic translation is to be believed roughly means, “You cannot access information of this search result, please return to google.cn for other information.” While censorship of selected domains is common for Google China, keyword-based censorship is more rarely to be seen. Plus, this specific filter covers not only web search but other services, like news or video search, as well.

If foreign firms want to “survive’ in China, they need to understand the not so subtle Chinese principle of: This is how we do it and you better get with the program cuz the boyz in the hood are always hard, you come talkin’ that trash we’ll pull your card. (Thanks to BoyCaught for the pointer)

Google China Self-Censors Carrefour