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Everyone was shocked when Google took a stand against China’s censorship laws in early January for various reasons spanning from cyber attacks to stricter censorship laws. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has gone on record saying that Google will conclude talks with China soon over the search issue.
If a compromise can not be made, Google will stop filtering search results to Google.cn, something Li Yizhong, China’s minister of Industry and Information Technology, does not approve of.
Yizhong was quoted saying, “I hope Google can respect Chinese rules and regulations. If you insist on taking this action that violates Chinese laws, I repeat: You are unfriendly and irresponsible, and you yourself will have to bear the consequences.”
Whatever these consequences might be, the end result will most likely end up with Google moving search out of the country and losing the largest market of internet users in the world.
Read [Engadget ] Via [The Wall Street Journal]
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