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...Internet giant's extraordinary insistence that it would no longer censor the search results on Google.cn - the second leading search engine in the country with the most Internet users in the world - appears to be leading to the demise of its Chinese-language search business. Beijing was never going to negotiate with Google on the issue of censorship - particularly not after the U.S. government hitched its wagon to Google's cause, in the form of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Jan. 21 speech on Internet freedom. In fact, only in the past few days has anyone from the Chinese...
Google's stunning pronouncement in January that it would no longer censor Google.cn may have given a thrill to human-rights activists the world over, but a lot of investors were - and remain - furious. Since posting the announcement on its website on Jan. 12, Google's stock price has declined from $595 to about $567, while Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has seen its stock price rise by 50%. (See pictures of life in the Googleplex...
...potential usurpers do what the Chinese government requires: censor their search results (as Google still does, despite reports in the blogosphere to the contrary). Random searches on all three platforms on March 17 for "Tiananmen Square, 1989," and "Falun Gong" - two hot buttons as far as Beijing is concerned - prompted the usual government-approved pabulum on the subjects. If Microsoft and the others intend to be in China "to stay," as Mundie put it, there is no chance - none - that the censorship issue will change for them going forward...
Within the framework of personal liberty, the idea that a state would censor to protect is positively Orwellian. The government of China has taken condemnable measures and abused the powers of the Internet for totalitarian gain. They have banned dissent blogs and have hacked into the email accounts of human rights activists and allegedly even Pentagon computers. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was justified in chastising China for its Internet censorship last month in a speech that propelled Internet freedom to the forefront of the United States’ diplomatic agenda...
Moreover, Levine says, the drug companies sponsoring the talks have no power to censor what materials physicians present, as long as the information has been approved...