Google has put it’s foot down this time in regards to Chinese censorship of information. Google has stated that they will no longer censor their results on google.cn and that if it means they will no longer be able to operate in China they will be taking their site down.
Google was founded and it gained it’s huge success off of freedom of information, well that and advertisements. So it makes sense that they are backing freedom of information in China, it’s just unfortunate that it is going to likely cost Google’s Chinese employees their jobs.
What gets me is the way their blog post starts off talking about cyber attacks made on them from a Chinese source. What was the point of that again? The blog post itself was to talk about how they are either going to provide access to unfiltered results in China or they are going to pack up their stuff and go home.
Yes the human rights issue in China are defiantly a topic of discussion, and that has a lot to do with why Google may be taking google.cn down but that still doesn’t explain why the blog post started off as it does. I only assumption is that by saying that these attacks went after advocates of human rights in China is saying that they suspect the Chinese government was involved in some way.
Should be interesting to see how China responds. I was actually hoping this post would have ended with “We have thus far decided that it is in our best interests to remove China’s access to the internet.” or a simple “No Interwebs 4 U China!”.
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