March 22nd, 2010, 11:53PM in Business, Internet by Marc LequimeView Comments
Google to China: NO U
Google.cn now redirects to Google Hong Kong (http://google.com.hk), in what they describe as a ‘perfectly legal’ wraparound to China’s extreme internet censorship.
The new site displays a message welcoming users to the ‘new home of Google China’. As well as this, they have stressed to the Chinese government that the decision was made purely by staff in the US and staff in China cannot be held accountable for the removal of Chinese services. So yeah, when you count the cards, Google will likely be blocked in China – goodbye, Google China.
From Google’s Blog:
We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we’ve faced—it’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.
We gracefully mourn Google China. May the memories of the once-great search engine remain.
R.I.P.
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China had this coming, so really, good on ya Google.
I totaly agree, Good on ya google, paul… your one cool dude