Google vs. China — Who's Got the Most To Lose?

Barence writes "Google looks set to pull out of China, but who will suffer most? The search engine or China? At last week's South by Southwest conference, Kaiser Kuo, a former director of digital strategy for the Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency in China, gave an illuminating talk that examined the history of Google and other Western internet firms in China, their relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the likely outcomes of the current stalemate. Kuo explained that Google had earned the respect of the tech-savvy urban elite by protecting users, making censorship clear and by protecting its employees in China. That means Google is walking away from a 35% market share, which contains a far wealthier demographic than local provider Baidu. The Government, meanwhile, which has been very pro-competition, is about to hand a complete monopoly to Baidu, harm its international standing and the development of net technologies in the country. Is it a lose-lose situation?"

Comments

Re:I don't get it...

[jernejk]

Flamebait? Really? Get off my lawn!

Re:Hold it just an elephantine minute here.

[Brett Buck]

Nice! With that kind of reading comprehension I presume you are an ESL student?

Re:who loses?

[Kamokazi]

Then the answer is obvious (to us enlightened Western Capitalists at least), but more frustratingly unsolvable - just how does one dismantle a massive, successful, Communist regime?

It's actually far more easy than you realize.