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Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10

Posted by kdawson on from the so-he-says dept.

A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: "Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. 'I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,' the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day."

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  1. Re:hmm... by Ryvar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a bit worried about workers in China regardless of who they work for.

    --Ryvar

  2. Re:Google's No Freedom Fighter by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google didn't come to this decision because they found their moral compass all of a sudden--otherwise they wouldn't have agreed to play censor for the government in the first place.

    Alternatively, like any individual or group, they may have felt, at the time, that they could do some good by operating in China, and then realized, in retrospect, that that simply wasn't the case.

    But you're right. It makes way more sense to ascribe sinister, greedy motivations to them. No company can possibly make a mistake...

  3. Re:Google's No Freedom Fighter by rutabagaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's less about greed on Google's part and more about the usual cost-benefit analysis of doing business with China's repressive government. Google just stayed until the disadvantages outweighed the benefits.

    --
    (insert witty/esoteric/dumb quote here)