Google Threat Jolts Chinese Internet Industry

Wall Street Journal: “Google Inc.’s threat to walk away from China sent shockwaves through the country’s fast-growing Internet industry Wednesday, with users, executives and analysts trying to gauge the potential fallout. The U.S. search giant’s announcement that it will stop censoring its Chinese search site, and may withdraw from the country altogether, triggered an outpouring of concern, and some anger, among Chinese Internet users . . . ”

Information Week: Google Ends Censorship In China

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“Through proxy servers and cheap ‘virtual private networks,’ many people in China can access just about any site in the world—including Google.com, where they find uncensored results. In other words, rather than doing business in China from within the country, perhaps Google will now commit to doing business in China from the outside. As one Chinese tweeter put it, it can shift from the business of censorship to the business of anti-censorship.”