GOOGLE – CHINA WAR!
GOOGLE CLOSES DOWN OPERATIONS IN CHINA AND RE- ROUTING ITS CHINESE USER TO THE GOOGLE BASE IN HONG KONG!
Google has now decided to completely shut down operations in China, since Google did not wish to censor there search results as the Chinese government demanded. Google is now automatically redirecting their Chinese consumers from google.cn to Google Search in the hosted pages of Hong Kong.
Information which the Chinese government feels should be blocked and censored to Chinese citizens are still occurring but now the onus falls in the Chinese government to censor and block which ever informational they feel is inappropriate, Google refuses to do so itself anymore. China has the most sophisticated censorship systems on the planet. Policemen and women are employed by the thousands to keep a watchful eye on all of China’s web activity. They also have a vast amount of automated systems to watch blogs as well as other banned sites and subjects.
Google has cooperated with Chinese government's restrictions for 4 long years, but said that it had a change of mind after discovering a computer hacking attack which Google traced to China. Google lost intellectual property in this attack and also discovered that the attack was directed at GMail accounts of all human rights activists. This made Google take a second look at the feasibility of all its Chinese operations.
The decision by Google to re-route its Chinese Google users to Hong Kong is a greatly welcomed decision by Hong Kong. Chinese official are not as enthusiastic about it, since they feel that Google has violated certain written promises which both Google and the Chinese government agreed on when negotiations were first held to offer Goggle internet search to China. “This is totally wrong. We’re uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues, and express our discontent and indignation to Google for its unreasonable accusations and conducts,” a spokesman was heard saying on Xinhua news agency, quoted by the BBC. http://www.directtrafficmedia.co.uk/News/Google_Defy_China_Breaking_Censorship_Agreement_13236651956.html
Google's head legal advisor, David Drummond, said that by providing uncensored search from Google.com.hk was a very sensible solution to the difficulties and challenges they had to face and that it is entirely legal and will increase the access to information for the Google users in China. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm Google hopes that the Chinese government will respect their choice and are well aware of the fact that the Chinese governments can block access to their information and services any time. David Drummond, also added, Google will monitor access and provide updates regularly via a page to show what was available via Google’s services in the mainland of China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm
http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/991956/China-claims-Google-violated-agreement/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_google_china
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