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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."
Who cares about China. Seriously. What happens there with Google affects most of us absolutely not at all.
Now, what is happening with censorship in Australia? What direction is the censorship, privacy, and IP situation in the UK going? How much more religious absolutism can the U.S. take before we head down that road too?
These are topics much closer to home with a much greater impact on us.
What a bunch of Google execs will do with a handful of employees in China... not so much.
Google Readying To Pull Out of China
- hopefully it will work out and China will not get pregnant. Imagine the litter? Little Choogle or maybe little Gooina.
They should have really used better contraception though, you never know what kind of a virus one may get going barebone like that!
You can't handle the truth.
Google should know that the pull-out method doesn't always work and can yield unwanted progeny.