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谷歌考虑退出:关闭中国运营及网站

北京时间1月13日早间消息,谷歌在其官方博客上宣布,公司不愿再对其中国版搜索引擎Google.cn的搜索结果进行审查,并承认这项决定可能意味着Google.cn将不得不关闭,可能连谷歌驻中国的办事处也会关闭。

中国异议人士邮箱遭黑客 Google因此考虑退出中国

Google12日表示,有证据显示,一个针对中国异议人士的GMAIL电子邮件帐号的网络攻击可能是源于中国,如果属实Google将可能考虑退出中国市场。

Google目前正与中国官方交涉,提出取消google.cn (符合中国对于新闻内容检查制度而制定的网站服务)并恢复google.com的服务,如果交涉失败,将考虑退出中国市场。

Google发言人表示,网络袭击是在12月发现的,但是调查目前显示,攻击并不成功。目前只有两个Gmail帐户似乎已被访问,而这一活动仅限于帐户信息,如日期及创建帐号的信息,但应未涉及电子邮件内容。至少有20多家大公司也同样受到此类攻击。这些公司所在行业包括金融、科技、媒体、化工等。

Google称,中国是少数被认为具有较强网络攻击力的国家之一,不过美国官员尚未公开指责中国,其原因是很难确定攻击背后发起者。不过,针对中国人权活动者的攻击已在增长,中国政府及其大量代理已成怀疑对象。

Google13日在其官方博客上宣布,考虑关闭中国运营及网站Google.cn。Google高级副总裁、公司发展和首席法律官David Drummond在谷歌官方博客上发表文章“A new approach to China”,谈及Google目前对于中国运营的看法及考虑。

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附英文原文:

Google to stop censoring in China after cyber attacks

Google on Tuesday said it will stop censoring search results in China after it detected "highly sophisticated and targeted" attacks on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The Internet giant didn't go so far as to accuse the Chinese government, but that seemed to be the allusion. Announcing it will stop cooperating with China over censorship, Google said it acknowledges that it may have to pull out of the world's most populous country.

"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," the company said on the Official Google Blog. "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."

Google said the e-mail accounts dozens of activists of human rights in China, located not just in China but also in the U.S. and Europe, were found to be accessed by third parties. The December investigation found that the accounts were not breached, but accessed via phishing scams or malware.

Google was not the only company targeted – at least 20 more companies were attacked, Google said. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has contacted those businesses and U.S. authorities.

The surprise move comes after months – perhaps years – of escalating concern over censorship in China. Microsoft recently got entangled in controversy when New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for the boycott of its Bing search engine, after it was found to return pro-Communist photos in its image search.

Google, which is by far the search leader in the U.S. and Europe, claims about 30 percent of the market in China. Chinese search engine Baidu is the dominant player – Bing, for its part, trails far behind.

"We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results," Google said Tuesday. "At the time we made clear that 'we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China.'"

It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does in response. Surely, there will be calls for Bing to follow suit and stop censoring Chinese search results. But Microsoft did recently peg China as its top search priority.

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建议大家读读加拿大本地人对下面这条新闻的评论,代表了普通加拿大人对中国的印象:http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/01/13/tech-google-china.htmlhttp://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/01/13/tech-google-china.html Google threat a rare show of defiance in China Last Updated: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:56 PM ET Comments194Recommend158The Associated Press Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market. A Chinese Google user lays flowers outside Google China headquarters in Beijing on Wednesday. (Vincent Thian/Associated Press) Dismayed by the prospect of a China without Google, visitors left flowers at its Beijing headquarters Wednesday as websites buzzed with words of support and appeals to stay. "I felt it's a pity and hope it will not withdraw from the Chinese market," said a man who left flowers at the building in the high-tech Haidian district and would give only his surname, Chang. "Google played a key role in the growth of our generation. The control (of the internet) is excessive." In industries from automaking to fast food, companies have been forced to allow communist authorities to influence — and sometimes dictate — their choice of local partners, where to operate and what products to sell. Web companies have endured criticism for co-operating with a communist system that tightly controls information. Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others have acceded to pressure to block access to politically sensitive material. Media face challenges "The internet is like media, and the media are under tight government control, so that poses additional challenges for foreign internet companies compared with, say, manufacturers of TV sets, mobile phones or autos," said Edward Yu, president of Analysys International, an internet research firm in Beijing. Google's decision even to talk publicly was rare in a system where Chinese officials react angrily to criticism. Officials have wide regulatory discretion and companies avoid saying anything that might prompt retaliation. China's Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not respond to requests for comment, but the state Xinhua News Agency cited an unidentified official as saying the government was seeking more information from Google. Phone calls to Google spokespeople in Beijing and Hong Kong were not answered. Comments left on Chinese Internet bulletin boards praised Google's stance and appealed to the Mountainview, Calif.-based search giant not to leave. "Google is a great soldier of freedom. You don't bend to the devils," said a note on the site Tianya.cn. A posting on www.mop.com pleaded, "Google please don't go. We can't let you go. Real man, we support you." Support emerges A photo on a Chinese website showed a visitor outside the Google building bowing in a traditional gesture of respect. China has the world's most populous internet market, with 338 million people online as of June and foreign internet companies eager for a share of that. But despite risking damage to their reputations by co-operating with the government, they have struggled to make headway against intense competition from Chinese rivals. Yahoo, eBay Inc. and others have given up and turned over control of their China operations to local partners. Google is the last global internet company to manage its own China arm. Google trails local competitor Baidu Inc. but has gained market share at the expense of smaller competitors. Google had 31.8 per cent of search revenues in 2009, versus 60.9 per cent for Baidu, according to Analysys. Google created its China-based Google.cn site in 2006, agreeing to censor results by excluding sites to which access was blocked by government filters, popularly known as the Great Firewall of China. Despite that co-operation, Beijing accused Google last year of spreading pornography and access to the site was temporarily blocked. The company's video site, YouTube.com, is unavailable to users in China. Google said Tuesday it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn. That would allow users to find politically sensitive photos and websites abroad, though downloading them might still be barred by government filters. It also said it had discovered that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their email accounts to outsiders. On Wednesday, Google.cn said its top search term of the day was "Tiananmen," possibly due to web surfers looking for material on the government's violent crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests. The No. 2 search topic was "Google leaving China." Google.cn appeared to be still censoring results. A search for the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement returned a message saying the browser could not open the page. A notice on the site says some results were deleted in line with regulations. Google managers told employees to go home and they did not know whether to come back Thursday, said an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to reporters.
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要学会平衡“原则”和“钱途”! 既要做得表面上大义凛然的不为所动地坚持原则,又要不动声色暗通款曲把钱赚到手,而且还要把竞争对手倒打一把! 要做到中国的这个谚语境界:既当婊子,又要立贞节牌坊!😁
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真佩服 Google 为言论自由敢跟任何强权作斗争。 前几年 Google 也拒绝提供网民搜索关键词给美国施法部。 Google, 好样的!
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说白了就是试图不遵守中国的法令,在大是大非面前,一个谷歌关不关门算个屁。在我看来,有本事直接关门,何必来个不痛不痒的声明,中国政府不会看,网民也不会看。你去你的google.com好了,别以为中国的互联网管理部门不会禁。
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中国不能搞 “因言获罪”。
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