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Exiled Tibetans protest Google censorship

Wednesday February 15th 2006, 1:59 am
Filed under: Global news, Ethics

Scores of angry Tibetans on Tuesday protested Google’s launch of a censored version of its search engine in China which adheres to that country’s government restrictions on free speech.

The protesters assembled in the central square of Dharmsala, the northern Indian headquarters of the exiled Tibetan government, carrying placards reading “Google, Don’t be Evil,” and “Gulag, Censoring Search by Search.”

The protesters also sent out 30,000 e-mails to people across the world urging them not to access Google on Tuesday.

Also, a popular Web site on Tibetan news and views run by exiled Tibetans in India shut itself down for one day, with the message: “We do not have any right to deny you our contents, but we commit this offense to help you realize a fact.”

Source: Ashwini Bhatia, The Associated Press via Breitbart.com

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