Google's future uncertain in China by Zivka Deleva

404 million is the number of Chinese users of the internet services every day! My oh my, we must admit that this is not a number that should be neglected. That’s why, the biggest internet giant Google is interested to stay on the biggest world market and accept the almost hermetical closed China government politics on the communication issue. Google officials announced few days ago that they are going to stop the practice to redirect their Chinese users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong, which they are doing for a while. The problem was Chinese government censors that are afraid that security problems might occur easily and that they can control their people better! . Due to the censorship, Google’s officials decided at the beginning of the year that they are not going to stay on the Chinese market and blocked their search engine. The Chinese license ends exactly today but it seems like the China government has become so paranoid that is not ready sign some compromising agreements with Google Co., on the filtering on search results. Chinese government didn’t accept with open heart the redirection of its people connection to Google through Hong Kong. And Google’s first men were aware of the potential punishment from China. In the IT terms, that means not giving another license in the future. ''Without an ICP license, we can't operate a commercial website like Google.cn - so Google would effectively go dark in China. ''This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self-censor and, we believe, with local law. We are therefore hopeful that our will be renewed on this basis'' – wrote chief legal office! r David Drummond on Google’s blog.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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