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 in unfiltered search engine within the law, if at ave
In a Posting on the house blog Suchgigant Google announced that it was no longer willing to censor search results in the Chinese edition of Google. In the same blog post Google reasons – the subject since the launch of its search results in China in 2006 to the dictates of socialist government – this step. Thus the group were not only important human rights that they had to fight with hackers from China who searched for specific useful information in the structure of Google and wanted to spy on mailboxes Chinese human rights activists.
After the announcement people have in front of the headquarters of Google China laid flowers cheering on the network if the brave people, walls breaking step for Google.
The move brings Google attention and could be technically and tactically PR much better.
The commitment and the accompanying silent censorship of the usually sacred search results Google has in the past three years, repeatedly brought criticism. In addition, the Chinese market is a difficult one – is the dominant search engine Baidu.com, Google ranks with 29% market share off into second place. In Mountain View you can now used for some years to come to the realization that, for public relations, human rights and the success is probably bad to submit to the dictation – a dictation, the subject, of course, not just Google.
The first praise for the move by Google comes from the human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Both called Google’s approach as “courageous and difficult step” and praised the company.
Google wants to discuss in the coming weeks with the Chinese government on the way forward and openly threatened to withdraw from the country.
Via: http://www.medienrauschen.de/
