Archive for January, 2010
A Business Case for Google’s China Defiance
Technology news has been abuzz for the past couple of days, following Google’s dramatic announcement that it will no longer comply with the Chinese government’s demands to censor their citizen’s web searches, and if necessary, will leave China altogether. In other words, Google is leaving China. The decision follows the discovery that Google’s e-mail servers were subject to a sophisticated security break-in that appears to have been carried out by the Chinese government. The primary target of the attack was the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
The confrontational announcement was posted on Google’s Blog at the end of the day, Jan 12th. By the morning, their stock had dipped 2%, but its already on the rebound.
