Honestly, what a good example of media that is totally one sided and only gives it's citizens the facts that it wants you to hear:
In the West, our news has been that Google is deciding, and they decided a while ago, that they were leaving China. Majorly, this is because China doesn't want Google searches to come up with any Chinese Liberal Media (or some crap like that). Actually, Google said that in addition to that type of censorship, paired with the fact that Google believes that there are internal spies trying to shut it down specifically in China, it doesn't really give them much reason to pour millions of dollars into a project that will bear no fruit.
In Korea, however, Google is hardly used. I think there may be one Google Headquarters in Seoul, but everyone here uses Naver. It returns searches mostly in Korean (even if you search for something in English) and it's kind of BS, only pandering to the Korean population. With Naver, Korean's don't have to worry about spies or some corporation letting the population see something too liberal because Naver is Korean owned and managed. Besides, nothing can sway the conservative hearts of the Korean people. Not even Google.
The cartoon reminds us that China is BIG and STRONG whilst Google and the West in general are WEAK and really PALE.
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