"We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn and potentially our offices in China."

  — David Drummond, Google chief legal officer

"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google’s mission, providing no information… is more inconsistent with our mission."

  — Google statement

071212-google-chinaThere’s no doubt that this is another tragedy after the Baidu’s being attacked. The Google staff in China even felt that they were abandoned.

Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service.

The internet giant said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights activists.

The move follows a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year, which has seen sites and social networking services hosted overseas blocked – including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – and the closure of many sites at home. Chinese authorities ­criticised Google for supplying "vulgar" content in results.

Google acknowledged that the decision "may well mean" the closure of Google.cn and its offices in China.

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