What a Google China exit would mean
What a Google China exit would mean : San Francisco It is becoming increasingly close groups of closures in China, a move that would be a sharp rebuke to Chinese censorship laws, but probably also the cost of Mountain View, California, billions of revenue in the future.
There is a decision of the groups is imminent, as the Internet search giant Chinese service license comes up for renewal this month.
Despite reports that Google is “99.9 percent” certain, according to Britain’s Financial Times, and that will leave China for the country’s laws and oversight, and the company says it did not stop the liquidation of its web search in January after it said it would not be bound And the Chinese censorship.
Fencing may be the face of the biggest freedom of expression online, a growing priority in the Obama administration, also sheds light not only in China to impose strict controls on information via the Internet, but restrictions on the Internet in many other countries, as well. In fact, be a departure from the groups they are likely to have wide implications in the decision-making by American and European firms to open another shop in the provincial authoritarianism. China, the largest Internet market in the world, not only within the google search results, but also blocks Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
In China, and Google’s move is seen as a political connotation, despite the fact that the Obama administration has stayed away from the battle, and could have consequences for the United States and China trade negotiations.
“[I] t is essential for governments, companies and individuals to make more effort to ensure that the Internet remains a powerful means to express their political views, religious views, and other core speech without restriction”, Nicole Wong, vice president and deputy general counsel for Google, said the week During the last session of Congress on the cyberpolicy and control over the Internet.
And high-level flap began after Google’s Chinese site was the target of cyberattack in December. Ms. Wong said in testimony before Congress that the goal of this attack is the access to Gmail accounts]. Separately, “said Wong, groups recently discovered that [Gmail accounts belonging to the Chinese human rights activists are regularly threatened.
“The attack on our infrastructure companies, control and revealed that he – as well as attempts over the past year to limit freedom of expression on the Internet to further – has led us to the conclusion that we are no longer willing to censor the results of our search, we China are currently reviewing our options, “she said.
It is not known, however, whether the attacks were sponsored by the State.
Reports emerged this week that the groups had already been to ease some restrictions on research on the Internet. MSNBC found that the sites related to Tibet and Tiananmen Square, which is usually blocked and began turning up in searches on Google in China.
Google, however, said he did not change its activity in China so far, and that the results of research could be amendments made by the Chinese government.
Wong said that Google, a company whose motto was once “Do not be evil”, was fully aware of the restrictive laws of China when he started there in 2006. “[The belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China, and more open to the Internet than disturbed to approve the imposition of control over some of the results,” she said.
Chinese companies, which sells ads on pages of groups are increasingly concerned on Google, pending a decision, as we’re already seeing sales dry up in the midst of the conflict.
In a letter sent to the groups of this week, the companies said “We hope that actually groups would address the problems and try to find ways to solve them.”
