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Old 01-13-2010, 01:17 PM   #1
BlackEleven
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Default Google to stop censoring search results in China

After Google was attacked in order to gain information about human rights activists in China it has dramatically changed its policy on censoring search results in China.

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These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks, we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn and potentially our offices in China.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10433538-265.html
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