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Google Readying To Pull Out of China
Sagelinka writes "Both Google and the Chinese government appear to be leaking word that the search firm may soon shutter its operations there as negotiations between the two break down. Google first threatened to halt its operations in China after disclosing in January that an attack on its network from inside China was aimed at exposing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. At the time, Google also said it was reconsidering its willingness to censor search results of users in China as required by the government. 'I think Google thought China would be flexible,' said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. Google has since been negotiating with the Chinese government to find a way to continue operating in the country. Google did not respond today to requests for comment on the state of the negotiations with China."
Google has almost the same market share in China as Baidu. The meme that google is running since they have no shot in hell in china is convenient but wrong.
It's not just China, but other countries too and even internationally (and also DMCA laws affect me and I'm not even in US nor using US Google).
And it's not like the whole situation was about blocking human rights organizations, but Chinese activists. You know what US does in a same kind of situation? It goes in war with Afghanistan and Iraq. And forget acting humanly - soldiers were raping whole families and so on.
Even if China did actually try to hack their email accounts, US doesn't need to do even that - US companies, especially large ISP's, have willfully installed backdoor systems for the government already.
Your entire post is crazy bullshit. Are you Chinese, by chance?
Is this also why China runs over unarmed people with tanks?
Of course not. But the U.S. outsources that behavior to Israel, and prefers bulldozers.
I forget what 8 was for.