Google.cn Has Already Stopped Filtering?

Submitted by jason.zhanjia on Wednesday, 13 January 2010View Comments

This morning, it came a HUGE news for everyone who involves in the China Internet industry. Google announced in its official blog that it was going to say NO to China government’s censorship policy due to amount of highly sophisticated hack attacks to Gmail accounts. “We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China,” said Google.

Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, is considering shutting its Chinese Web site and offices after discovering a “highly sophisticated” attack last month aimed at gaining access to e-mail accounts of human-rights activists.

In investigating the attack, Google said it discovered that at least 20 other large companies in industries such as finance, technology, media and chemicals had been targeted. The company also said it plans to stop censoring results on its Google.cn site and hold talks with Chinese authorities.

Click here to continue reading reading the new on BusinessWeek.

Around the noon, the Google.cn search results indicate the search giant may have already stopped filtering.

For more updated information, please keep following the HASH tag #GoogleCN on Twitter.

Tags: #GoogleCN, Chinese Internet Censorship, Google

Ray Chan

the filter is working now....

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