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Google backed up by US law makers in dispute with China
11 March, 2010, 06:34
China is a threat to cyber security and Internet freedom, both of which America should promote. That's according to the US Congress, which praised Google's decision to fight against Chinese web censorship.
We no longer feel comfortable censoring our search results in China, said Nicole Wong, vice president and deputy general counsel of Google Inc. at the hearings at the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
In January, Google suddenly announced it would no longer filter search results on its Chinese search engine. The company declared it was prepared to pull out of China if Beijing refused to accept that position.
The statement came after Google uncovered a series of sophisticated cyber attacks in the middle of December, according to the company, aimed at its source code and at email accounts used by Chinese human rights activists. Although, Google did not have information regarding who was carrying out those attacks, they hoped that the Chinese government would work with US officials to investigate the issue.
The Internet giant has continued to filter results on Google.cn, while awaiting the outcome of discussions with Chinese authorities.
Facing all these difficulties, the corporation has decided to turn to US law-makers in a call to action for Internet freedom. Wong said that the free flow of information will help promote foreign assistance efforts and diplomacy.
China is the origin of extensive and malicious cyber activities that target the United States claimed Larry Wortzel, commissioner of the US and China Economic and Security Review, during the hearings. The vast majority of this activity is directed by the Chinese government.
Most of the lawmakers praised Googles call as a principled and public commitment to
doing the right thing, but some believe the company should follow their own principles and follow through on what they have announced.
Google has yet to follow through and to stop self censoring, and our praise shouldnt be for intent, it should be for accomplishing, said Congressman Dana Rochrabacher.
Some experts say that Google would never leave such a lucrative market.
Since threatening to leave China, Google has hanged its tone. We are currently reviewing our business operations there, said Wong. She emphasized that an open Internet should be part of the US trade agenda because of the economic impact censorship has on companies, and businesses in every sector use the Internet to reach their customers.
Unfortunately, corporate America cannot be trusted on making moral decisions and decisions based on freedom and democracy when it comes to their corporate profit, Dana Rochrabacher told RT after the hearing. We should do everything we can to make sure that corporations do not acquiesce to the mandates of a dictatorship in Beijing.
Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over the censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday according to Reuters.com.
"I'm going to use the word 'soon', which I will not define otherwise," Schmidt told journalists at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit. "There is no specific timetable. Something will happen soon," he added, without elaborating.
Chinese officials have said they are working on resolving the dispute.
RT contributor Wayne Madsen believes the Googles call is nothing but double standards as the White House makes its own power grab into cyberspace.
It is interesting that the Obama administration says its in favor of net neutrality, Madsen said. But at the same time we see them making a power grab into cyberspace, most recently with this deal that was worked up between the NSA and Google, where it is going to be a co-operative relationship. And they have got the same deals with other high-tech companies in the information technology world.
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@marvelstryfe Your an idiot, Google has supported China's right to censor, while promoting change in the past. This has nothing to do with censorship, it's hacking, China hacked Google, an act of cyber warfare. Hacking is not censoring.
lgvereor 5 months ago
Google censors political views in Western countries, so it should not pretend to be shocked about Chinese censorship. While Google has not yet completely censored my website dealing with The Huffington Post’s censorship, the search engine has cut my website out of searches containing, for instance, the keywords “global warming” and “censorship” as well as “Huffington Post” and “censorship,” but interestingly not “Arianna Huffington” and “censorship.” Please see my YouTube channel (Xarkonul).
marvelstryfe 5 months ago