Google Against China

Google China may disappear completely.

In a decision that should have been made a long time ago, [blippr]Google[/blippr] have gotten sick of China’s censorship and ‘repetitive attacks on Gmail users.’ Google now refuse to censor their search results to China, and face a wave of criticism and anger from the Chinese government, following their harsh restrictions on the search engine.

In a way, this is Google, a company recently titled for world domination, or atleast Market Takeover in the tech world, living up to their popularly ridiculed mantra ‘Don’t be evil.’ which they’ve used for quite some time. The actual response from Google is caused by repetitive attacks from China on the [blippr]Gmail[/blippr] accounts of Human Rights Activists for China based in the US, Europe and China itself.

From Google’s Blog Post:

We have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Based on our investigation to date we believe their attack did not achieve that objective. Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves.

But a decision such as this that will likely cause great discontent, and perhaps the forced removal of Google’s prescence in China, highlights the growing problem of lack of freedom, and could be a major boost to Chinese-prescent competitors, such as [blippr]Baidu[/blippr], or even [blippr]Bing[/blippr].