Google to China: "Fuck You". Takes ball; goes home. (1 Viewer)

[pete]

We have taken the unusual step of sharing information about these attacks with a broad audience not just because of the security and human rights implications of what we have unearthed, but also because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech. In the last two decades, China's economic reform programs and its citizens' entrepreneurial flair have lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese people out of poverty. Indeed, this great nation is at the heart of much economic progress and development in the world today.

We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that "we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China."

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. 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.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

Good on ya father.

 

[shower another shower]

They should start a Facebook Group.

 

[pete]

gossip inside google China is gov hackers found infiltrating google source code repository; gmail attacks an old issue.

ha

 

[Cryptid]

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[Gambra]

YouTube- So Ronery

Do they all "that lot" look the same to you yeah? Get yer countries right.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It's all just posturing for the now, right?

No one's actually said they're leaving?

 

[Froog]

what attacks are they talking about? anyways, this reeks of "look at us we are so good" PR. no company in their right mind would pull out of the massive emerging market that is china. stock would plummet. shareholders would be livid. nothing will come of this. betcha.

 

[theoootini]

Do they all "that lot" look the same to you yeah? Get yer countries right.

i repped you saying yeah. i meant yes, i agree with your point.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'd have a lot to say about this.



If I was allowed.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Too little too late - it appears that it's a little bit of peevishness and a lot of the fact that they've already lost the market anyway and don't stand to lose that high a % of global income.