"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."
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Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Bravo, Google.
(via emptyage)
Wow. This could be really big. They also describe a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on their corporate infrastructure originating in China, concurrent with similar attacks on 20+ other companies in the internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors - in addition to an attempt to hack the accounts of chinese human rights advocates, and evidence that other advocates of human rights in China were routinely having their accounts accessed by third parties. Crazy (or rather, Google’s openness about this is crazy; I wouldn’t put this past the Chinese government or the “angry youth” of china at all).
(via colinashe)
Wow indeed.
