China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

suraj.sun writes with this snippet from an Associated Press report: "China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or 'pay the consequences,' giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. 'If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences,' Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of China's annual legislature. ... 'Whether they leave or not is up to them,' Li said. 'But if they leave, China's Internet market is still going to develop.' ... Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people. 'If there is information that harms stability or the people, of course we will have to block it,' he said."

Comments

Advice

[Renraku]

I'd advise Google to get all of its employees out of China that they don't want to be found dead someplace if they want to continue to be defiant.

Google needs China, not the other way around

[superyanthrax]

Baidu can just take over the other 30% market share it doesn't have, but Google loses quite a bit of revenue.

I wonder how the next Google stockholder's meeting will go if Google leaves, how can the Board answer the question of why the stockholders' interests (i.e. profits) were blatantly compromised for empty, useless proclamations of "human rights?"

Google will cave because they need us and we don't need them. "Human rights" are a ridiculous non-issue. Nobody in power in the world actually cares at all, they just use it to rile up their own people against foreign governments. When push comes to shove stuff will get done and "human rights" will not get in the way.

Re:See, this is what i was talking about

[unity100]

russia ? russia has NO principles in regard to anything. there is no hypocrisy there.

european countries suck up to china indeed, yet they dont go infesting other countries and turning them upside down for profit like american companies do. hell, they even turned your own country upside down, and you are the people complaining loudest about that.

holy cow

[unity100]

dont you know that it was an official foreign policy of u.s. to implement coups in third world countries and implant dictators friendly to business interests of industrial-military complex for the last 60 years ?

the number of u.s. backed dictators in africa and south america in the span of 6 decades has been countless. and their reign bloody. this is one of the reasons why half of the world hates you americans.

excuse me, but if this is not 'turning countries upside down', i dont know what is.

Re:Bullshit.

[geekoid]

If you would actually study this, you would quickly realized that the republican and democrat views have swapped. In fact it has happen several times.

Your view is factually wrong, and has made you look like an idiot.
Sometime I wish you needed a degree in political history to even talk about politics. . . maybe just a certificate.