Google’s “new approach to China”
January 13th, 2010
Big. Huge. Potentially game-changing.
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.
Ian Paul doesn’t think that Google will actually pull out of China. But whatever ends up happening, the implications of this statement could be huge – both for Google as a business, and for China. Stay tuned.
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Well good for Google, standing up to the Chinese takes some guts. However If they do pull out of China I’m willing to bet that the Chinese will have a knock off called Goggle as soon as Google boards up their office and leaves.