Google in china

[swatiraohnlu]

On January 12th, 2010, Google Senior Vice President David Drummond announced: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

So, the question remains, in principle and on business terms, was Google justified to stop censoring its results in China and to effectively decide to leave? Were China's censorship policies really too egregious? More egregious than other countries' censorship laws?

 

[dimpy.handa]

It's more than two months since Google first threatened to lift the veil of censorship from its Chinese search engine after it came under attack from hackers. But after weeks of protracted negotiations with the government in Beijing, it now it appears that the internet's most powerful company is taking its first concrete steps to withdraw from China.

Just a few minutes ago, Google's Chinese search engine - Google.cn - started redirecting to the company's service Hong Kong, in what seems to be the first major signal of a pullout.