China Condemns Decision by Google to Lift Censorship
March 23rd, 2010How diabolical must a regime be for Google to look like the good guy?
Via: BBC:
China has said Google’s move to stop censoring search results is “totally wrong” and accused it of breaking a promise made when it launched in China.
The US giant is redirecting users in mainland China to its unrestricted Hong Kong site, although Chinese firewalls mean results still come back censored.
Beijing said the decision should not affect ties with Washington.
Google threatened to leave the Chinese market completely this year after cyber attacks were traced back to China.
Google’s move effectively to shut its mainland Chinese search service, google.cn, is a major blow to China’s international image, the BBC’s Damian Grammaticas reports from Beijing.
It means one of the world’s most prominent corporations is saying it is no longer willing to co-operate in China’s censorship of the internet, our correspondent says.
China has moved to further limit free speech on the web – Google’s own websites and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists recently came under cyber attack.
