Category: By now, the news of Google publicly chastising China via their official blog has made its way around the Internet. Google, citing attacks on themselves and at least 20 other large corporations, has decided to ‘rethink’ their business strategy in China, starting with removing filters from their search engine results:
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.
While Google acknowledges that removing themselves from doing business in China is a decision not to be made lightly, I think they are making the correct decision for three main reasons:
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