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Can Google be banned from the internet?
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"Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services." -- Courtesy of wikipedia.org, I don't think it can be banned the internet unless something goes catastrophically wrong. Direct Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google.com
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Google has been banned on numerous occasions. The word "banned" is where the question hinges. Control of the servers that provide the content of a website, any website for that matter, enables the person/company/government controlling that server to restrict what people can access on that server. This is how China, north Korea, America, India, any country really stops people access information they don't want people to see/read.
The internet is not one complete thing, it is a web of servers all interconnected. America controls the allocation of domain names and thus servers. Imagine cutting strands of this 'web' of interconnected servers, you can see how access to certain sites can be 'banned' because access to the server that provides that website is cut.
Of course, the beauty of the internet is the fact of its interconnectivity. So long as one, just one strand of a countries internal internet web network is connected to the external web network you can bypass most blocks on access. Several websites have been set up for exactly this purpose enabling people in Tibet and many Asian countries, which have highly restrictive controls, to access sites like BBC news and other media outlets.
Back to the question, can google be banned? No, it can't, but access to it can be denied which is another way of saying yes, it can.
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so true. blocks are everywhere...onlymatter of time before filters are installed
Filters are already there and have been for many many years. As an example... I'm sitting here in Hungary and toady I was looking fot info on the LHC - large hadron collider - and while I can access the main site/home page and a few other parts there are areas of the site that are blocked to me because of where I live. The BBC prevents me from watching its streaming videos on occassion, again because of where I am despite the fact that I have to see adverts on the site whereas UK citizens don't... go figure. Censorship is here to stay so are filters I just hope they don't start making you buy into the "two tier" net where if you want to access the better sites, amazon, google, wikipedia and others, you have to pay a flat fee on top of what you already pay to your ISP. If you haven't heard about this it is much the same vein as when you get cable or satellite, you pay extra for a package for what you want to see or read. Not too bothered about that though as some clever person willl come up with a hack against it lolololol