Google has reacted toward China censorship with a fresh line of attack concerning it’s search engine busiess, Now Google isn’t censoring Search inside China and redirecting all search results of google.cn to google.com.hk. This was only a matter of time due to the pressure and outrage from western communities and the human rights laws that many feel is being undermined by the Chinese authorities and inward looking nanny state.
Google provided google.cn in 2006 to do business in China, .cn domain is restricted by Chinese Government, .hk domain is restricted by hongkong government so google is now redirecting all search query, image search and all other querys on its search engine to google.com.hk domain.
After months of disputes, tough negotiations with the Chinese Government and finally brutal hacker attacks on Google (presumably supported by the Chinese Government), Google decides to take the offense strategy and redirect all Chinese visitors to its unrestricted/uncensored Hong Kong internet site The Chinese Government is furious, but evidently this step is legal. There are rumours that China may take proceedings to phase out Google from Hong Kong as well.
Out of Google’s $16bil profit last year, the Chinese market contributed a comparatively short sum ($400mil). Nevertheless, this incident is not just about business interests; rather, it touches the difficulty of free expression of speech and information. Let’s hope Google stays in China and no added countries will follow suit.
I have nothing but admiration for Google when I read this morning that they have pulled from China and are going to be online from Hong Kong. Too many western organizations turn a blind eye to China’s human rights record so as not to jeopardise their profits – and that is a disgrace
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