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aol's chinese content: made in china, but not for china

Aolchinablocked From Asian Pundit: "Following the almost universally damned launch of Google's censored Chinese service, AOL in February received praise from some quarters for launching a Chinese language portal that would offer uncensored content. However, it said the service would be Chinese speakers living outside of the mainland. It was announced yesterday that Shanghai Media Group (SMG) had reached a deal to provide content to the AOL Chinese portal. Reuters reports on the deal here and Xinhua reports on it here. While it had gone largely unnoticed in initial news reports that the original Google Chinese language site remained available in China alongside the censored Google.cn, it has gone completely unnoticed that the AOL service has been rendered inaccessible in mainland China. A SMG spokeswoman said that the company was aware that the service was unavailable in Mainland China and restated that the AOL portal is intended for overseas Chinese. Essentially, Google is still providing uncensored search results in China while AOL now is buying Chinese content from a state-linked media group to broadcast outside of China."

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Hi Tricia, you've really done some interesting posts. And, thanks for the book recommendation! I emailed you the other day but got bounced back today from your Youmeiti email address.

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