Google Blocks its services in some countries

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Google is reportedly blocking use of it's Chrome browser (among other applications like Google Talk and Gmail Notifier) in some countries with which the United States has economic sanctions and export controls with. "We are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan," says a Google Spokesperson.

You can read the whole news here
*bestmobilesite.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-blocks-its-services-in-some.html

Well our India is very well respected by every US Company? May be now Left parties will shout why they didn't inclued us in that List?

Left means left, they can't be right. You now know what i mean

Many sites ought to follow these rules, its an old thing. Another example can be SourceForge.net. They don't permit developers to be from those countries either.

I hate the US Monopoly. But what one can one day; they have most of everything.

Can proxy help them?

User Name said:
Can proxy help them?

Sure!
Technically, nothing on internet can be blocked.
The only foolproof solution is to all together shutdown the service, which Companies can't do.

However having said that, blocking a website shuns many users away

Forget the computers and the internet, I had always had an issue with such type of behaviour in the moral realm of our existance, just didn't feel right.

...so the entire population of a country must stand accused for its dickhead ruler.

Actually google and yahoo and msn with their strength can stand for freedom of speech, but they won't

Just a quote for this nite

Recently, Indian law enforcement has entered an agreement with the popular social networking site Orkut to track down what it deems defamatory content which, in their example, includes content critical of Bal Thackeray

^^See ? Even India is no better than the US. Terrorists like Bal Thackeray are allowed their own way in India.

i think future is closed ! :-s