June 07, 2006
"But, EVERYONE Is Doing It..."
Another brick is laid in the Great Firewall of China as news-sources report that access to Google's original and uncensored Web page is no longer available to Chinese citizens.Back in January, Google announced the launch of Google China, a version of its product that would cater to China's strict censorship laws. Google isn't the only US based company to choose to comply with China, as noted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin; they simply joined other internet companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Cisco Systems who did not want to lose out on the major economic opportunities afforded by China's large population.
Last Wednesday, access to Google's international and unrestricted site was blocked by the Chinese government. The block is also said to be affecting GoogleNews and GoogleMail. However, Google China is up and running smoothly.
Brin has defended his company's decision to launch Google China, citing that restricted access to the search engine was better than no access at all (which is true, at least in terms of revenue). His defense has provoked negative response from Human Rights organizations, and Brin has recently stated that "perhaps now the principled approach makes more sense". And what is this principled approach? Well, from Google we simply have no comment...
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