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

Re:Protecting rights

[LordArgon]

"We are at war with Google. We have always been at war with Google."

Like China?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anytime some dumbass talks about censoring for your own good, like Australia or New Zealand, people should use this quote. Like China?

Re:Game of Chicken

[bigpat]

How are the Chinese government officials going to find the objectionable content if they can't Google it?

Chinese regulators can't let go of the past...

[Tetsujin]

All this stems from an incident several years back in which Li Yizhong was sent a link in a message online. When he clicked on it, and stared for a moment into the gaping void of a man's disproportionately stretched anus, he was forever changed... Determined to fight a never-ending battle against harmful information so that he would never again face that horror.