1) student's english name Vicky
2) article title China: Going, Google, gone?
3) source of article TODAYonline
4) date of article 05:55 AM Jan 14, 2010
Going through two cyber attacks, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appealed Chinese government to provide them more confidence in cyberspace. In the meantime, by considering its business in China which was restricted by the censorship such as the limited free speech, Google decided to stop the cooperation with China if there was still censor search results on Google.cn. This decision would have far-reaching consequences, because the heart of the matter was the freedom of speech on the global internet, Mr. Drummond acknowledged.
In the event of Google's withdrawing from China, I think it is time to stop the censorship now. Chinese government filters the information before putting it on the internet, and I think the reason is that they want to maintain the stability of society and are afraid of commotions caused by some free speeches. However, it is unnecessary to cover the facts and truths, after all, we all have the ability of judgment and the human rights to know what is going on around us. If Google exits China, the Chinese homegrown search engine Baidu.com may benefit for a while, but this is not beneficial for the long-term development of the internet in China. Baidu loses a competitive rival which can also result in no motivation to innovate. All in all, from my point of view, Chinese government should no longer censor search results and give the spectators a complete world.
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Have you imagined the insecurities may be caused if China stops the sensorship for the search engines?
ReplyDeleteAs we all should know it is impossible for china to stop filtering the internet. We should watch this much deeper and further. As a business company, Google tried to use the political pressure to force China open fully open its internet to the world, there might be some inner trap inside. Though the reason is still undercover, it is obvious that the censorship can never be the real reason since all the web companies was equally under the compulsory censorship. It should be the fairness in the market which a business company concerned most while Google surprisingly action to withdraw from China because of political problem. I think there are more we gonna think.
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