A new approach to China
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A new approach to China
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Re: A new approach to China
#2We 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.
Wow.
Re: A new approach to China
#3We 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. Wow.
They shouldn't have even opened an office in China. What the heck did they expect to happen?
Re: A new approach to China
#4It's easy to shut down the site when you are losing the search game to local competition.
In any case, even though I find freedom of speech to be necessary and encouraged, I do not think that Google is right to imply in this blog post that the Chinese government is behind the attacks.
Re: A new approach to China
#5We 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. Wow.
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#6This is incredible. This is the first time, I have seen a LARGE company
* Putting its users above profits
* Stand up to Chinese Government.
Since accounts of human rights activists were targeted, this operation was clearly done at the behest of Chinese Government. I'm disgusted by the levels to which the Chinese Government can stoop.
It is time the world stands up to China. If a corporation, whose main aim is to generate profits can eschew it and take a moral high ground why can't the government do it? Are the cheap goods from china so necessary that it is not worth antagonizing China ?
EDIT: Additional details from Enterprise blog post http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/keeping-your-da...
It was an attack on the technology infrastructure of major corporations in sectors as diverse as finance, technology, media, and chemical
This is clearly an act of espionage by the Chinese Government. The bigger questions is whether these are the only companies targeted or the only ones discovered. This is not the first time, the chinese have tried something like this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7970471.stm
The researchers said hackers were apparently able to take control of computers belonging to several foreign ministries and embassies across the world using malicious software
Re: A new approach to China
#7We 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. Wow.
They shouldn't have even opened an office in China. What the heck did they expect to happen?
They expected to do business, of course. It is, after all, a 1.32bn audience base.
Quite glad they're opting to take the ethical route this time, though.
Re: A new approach to China
#8Go Google, Go!
This is what the world needs more of. Mega Multination Corporations standing up to dictatorships, human rights violators and all around douche bag governments.
Re: A new approach to China
#9Every once in awhile their Don't be evil motto reminds us that it still exists.
Reading in between the lines, it seems that they must feel that the Chinese government was involved in the attacks on the user accounts. Otherwise, the first portion of the post re: cyber security has little to do with the latter portion re: dealing with China at all. This is a fairly clever approach to conveying such a heavy message without stating it.
Re: A new approach to China
#10It's easy to shut down the site when you are losing the search game to local competition. In any case, even though I find freedom of speech to be necessary and encouraged, I do not think that Google is right to imply in this blog post that the Chinese government is behind the attacks.
But who else would want to garner information from emails of human rights activists in China?