Wednesday 13 January 2010

Google and China seem to be waging an information war

Internet giant Google says it may end its operations in China after hackers targeted the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
BBC News - Google 'may pull out of China after Gmail cyber attack'




Google is taking a new, hard-line approach to China, which includes a new policy where they are no longer going to censor search results on Google.cn.

UPDATE: Laszlo Thoth checked and image searches for “Tiananmen” are now showing up again on Google.cn. For instance the iconic image of a man standing in front of a row of tanks can be found on the second page of results.




Google Takes a Hard-Line Approach to China, Will Stop Censoring Google.cn Search Results
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