Don't be evil.

Google fulfilled its promise to cease censoring its Chinese users' search results on Monday.

 

The move puts the company in direct conflict with Beijing's historically strict Web filtering rules.

 

Visitors to Google's Chinese search portal, Google.cn, were redirected beginning late Monday to the search engine giant's Hong Kong home page. A banner reading, “Welcome to Google Search China’s new home,” greeted users in simplified Chinese earlier in the day.

 

In a blog post announcing the shift, David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google, stressed that the decision resulted from the "sophisticated cyberattack originating from China" that hit Google earlier this year.

 

That January attack, which also breached more than 20 other U.S. companies, specifically targeted human rights activists using the company's Gmail system. Ultimately, Drummond said the breach "led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn."

 

Google will stop self-censoring its text and image search results, as well as its Google News hub.

f*** google.

I applaud them for taking a stand

Yeah, eventually. I blame them for capitulating in the first place.

I'm sure China has them filtered out by now anyway.

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Google will no longer automatically direct its mainland Chinese users to its non-censored Hong Kong search engine, the company said late Monday.

 

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) has been using the automatic redirect to protest censorship of results on its mainland Chinese search engine, Google.cn.

 

But in an official company blog post, the search giant said if it continued to send its mainland Chinese users to its Hong Kong site, Beijing would likely revoke its license to operate in China.

Are they blocked from going to the HK version?

Google stands up for what's right!!!