"Google is testing a book search service in China that allows users to 
search and read the full text of books.
The trial website, which went live on March 2, is the latest addition 
to Google's Chinese search engine, Google.cn. As part of ongoing 
efforts to attract more Chinese internet users to Google.cn, which 
limits search results to satisfy Chinese government censors, the 
company has been adding more features to the site.

A posting on Google's Chinese blog said the company has so far scanned 
1 million books from around the world into its index, but relatively 
few Chinese books are available. "In China, this mission has just 
started, we still have a long way to go," the blog said. ... "


        http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/EA4FE89918AA14BACC257296001AE8D5?opendocument&utm_source=topnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=topnews

Get your expurgated results here

        http://books.google.cn/

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The badly mangled misquote is from Elmansor written in 1821 by 
Heinrich Heine (lived 1797-1856.)
Note the dates.

He's quoted here on an interesting albeit contentious page 
http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/volkisch.html which examines the 
extremes of censorship and its converse which occurred in another 
regime.

The more general sense of the quote is usually taken, as here, as a 
broad comment on censorship at various levels.
FWIW - I have substantial sympathy for some sorts of censorship. The 
great difficulty is deciding where the boundaries are and who says so 
and why.





            Russell

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