Google another brick in China's great firewall
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GOOGLE will join Microsoft and Yahoo! in helping China, the world's biggest censor, in blocking access to websites containing politically sensitive material.
After a year of soul-searching, Google executives have grudgingly accepted that this is the price they have to pay to base servers in China.
The move will improve the speed - and attractiveness - of the service in a country where Google faces strong competition from the leading Mandarin search engine, Baidu.
But Google faces a backlash from free speech advocates, internet activists and politicians, some of whom are already asking how the company's policy in China accords with its mission statement: to make all possible information available to everyone who has a computer or mobile phone.
GOOGLE will join Microsoft and Yahoo! in helping China, the world's biggest censor, in blocking access to websites containing politically sensitive material.After a year of soul-searching, Google executives have grudgingly accepted that this is the price they have to pay to base servers in China.
The move will improve the speed - and attractiveness - of the service in a country where Google faces strong competition from the leading Mandarin search engine, Baidu.
But Google faces a backlash from free speech advocates, internet activists and politicians, some of whom are already asking how the company's policy in China accords with its mission statement: to make all possible information available to everyone who has a computer or mobile phone.
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