{"id":5120,"date":"2010-03-23T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2010-03-23T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:00:07","slug":"google-stops-censoring-itself-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/03\/google-stops-censoring-itself-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Google stops censoring itself for China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Google may have stopped being evil, deciding to stop kow-towing to\u00a0 still-Communist China\u2019s demands that it block searches on forbidden topics, such as \u201cTiananminh Square\u201d and \u201cTibet.\u201d\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Google is responding to what appears to be a Chinese attempt to hack into its operations and steal its technology:<\/p>\n

Google Inc., following through on a pledge to stop censoring search results in China, began serving mainland Chinese users via its unfiltered Hong Kong site, a move that could prompt the government to block the service.<\/p>\n

The company began redirecting traffic from its Google.cn site to Hong Kong, a part of the country that isn\u2019t subject to censorship laws. The move, which escalates a two- month dispute with the government over censorship, was \u201ctotally wrong,\u201d the official Xinhua news agency said.<\/p>\n

By relying on Hong Kong, Google is trying to find a way to fight censorship laws while still keeping a presence in mainland China. The approach may not work for long because the government will probably block the site, called Google.com.hk, just as it has before with the main Google.com page, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt\u2019s very likely that Google.com.hk will be blocked at least as aggressively as Google.com was and, more likely, probably more aggressively,\u201d he said.\n

The company challenged the government of the world\u2019s most populous country in January by threatening to allow all search results to be shown on its China Web site, including references to Tibet and the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Google has about 600 employees in the country. Google.cn included the search engine, Google News and Google Images.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement,\u201d Google said in a blog post. \u201cWe believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we\u2019ve faced \u2014 it\u2019s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google fell $2.50 to $557.50 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The shares have declined 10 percent this year. . . .<\/p>\n

Google, the world\u2019s top search engine, threatened to stop censoring content after reporting that its computers had been hacked from within China. The company said its systems were targeted by \u201chighly sophisticated\u201d attacks aimed at obtaining proprietary information, as well as personal data belonging to human-rights activists who use the company\u2019s Gmail e-mail service.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government denied that it was involved in the attacks, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n

At least 20 other international companies in technology, finance and chemicals were similarly targeted, Google said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered \u2014 combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the Web in China including the persistent blocking of Web sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger \u2014 had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on google.cn,\u201d Google said on the blog.<\/p>\n

via Google Stops Censorship, Making Block by China Likely (Update1) \u2013 BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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