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Friday, July 2, 2010

Google in China: Censorship vs Economic Gain

france24english | July 01, 2010

TALKING POINTS - Relations between the American search giant and Beijing have been tense since Google stated it no longer wanted to cooperate with the Chinese government's web filtering. Google closed its China-based search engine and rerouted users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site. But the company stopped the automatic switching this week. So is Google doing too much to please Beijing and tap into the lucrative Chinese market?