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Will Google leave China before July 4?
Background: A New Approach to China
David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
The decision to review our business operations in China has been incredibly hard, and we know that it will have potentially far-reaching consequences. We want to make clear that this move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China who have worked incredibly hard to make Google.cn the success it is today. We are committed to working responsibly to resolve the very difficult issues raised.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
The decision to review our business operations in China has been incredibly hard, and we know that it will have potentially far-reaching consequences. We want to make clear that this move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China who have worked incredibly hard to make Google.cn the success it is today. We are committed to working responsibly to resolve the very difficult issues raised.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
Settlement details:Market settles as YES if Google.cn is offline on July 4, 2010 or if Google decides to leave its offices in China before July 4, 2010 -- as reported by a major mainstream news sources.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10436821-94.html
China has in turn publicly indicated that it has no plan to be flexible with Google.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_google
"Google: We censor what you can read, so You don't have to censor what you think!"
"Today's censored topics: Human Rights, Corruption, Waste. You didn't really want to know anyway, did you?"
"Nope - that thing we can't talk about did NOT happen - because surely if it had happened, we'd let you know, wouldn't we?"
"Just to balance things out, today we've also censored the following inoffensive stuff: lolcats, all weather reports, pictures of small children (fully clothed)"
"No news about Tibet was worth censoring today...so you're not missing anything! Carry on!"
LO* Tha* wa* prett* funn*!
http://mashable.com/2010/02/13/google-sergey-brin-ted-china/ (Feb 13th)
March 12, 2010 | New York Times
BEIJING — One of China’s top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be “irresponsible” and would draw a response from the Beijing government. The statement by Li Yizhong, China’s minister of industry and information technology, followed a statement on Wednesday by Google’s chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, that “something will happen soon” in the two-month standoff over Internet censorship between his firm and the Chinese government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/asia/13china.html
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Published: March 12 2010 20:11 | Last updated: March 13 2010 02:16
Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.
more: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dd69e680-2e06-11df-b85c-00144feabdc0.html
So close!
What happens if google office stays open, but google.cn is offline sometime before July 4th, and back online on the date?
This news story is only a day older then yours, but it says negations are still ongoing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/tc_afp/chinausitmediarightsinternetgoogle
Settlement details: Market settles as YES if Google.cn is offline on July 4, 2010 or if Google decides to leave its offices in China before July 4, 2010 -- as reported by a major mainstream news sources.
I know! So close!
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