Google in Kitajska

Iz družbe Google so sporočili, da bi lahko zaradi vdora v elektronske poštne nabiralnike kitajskih človekoljubnih aktivistov umaknili spletno stran google.cn. Podjetje za vdore ni neposredno obsodilo kitajskih oblasti, je pa sporočilo, da ni več pripravljeno cenzurirati zadetkov, ki jih iskalnik prikazuje spletnim uporabnikom na Kitajskem. Zato obstaja možnost, da bo Google ukinil spletno stran, ki jo je postavil leta 2006. Na to se je odzvala celo ameriška zunanja ministrica Hillary Clinton, ki je dejala, da navedbe ameriške družbe vzbujajo zaskrbljenost.

Le nekaj ur zatem, ko je novica o ukrepu Googla prišla v javnost, so cene delnic Googla na newyorški borzi padle za 1,3 odstotka, cene delnic družbe Baidu pa so poskočile za 6,8 odstotka.

We have taken the unusual step of sharing information about these attacks with a broad audience not just because of the security and human rights implications of what we have unearthed, but also because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech. In the last two decades, China's economic reform programs and its citizens' entrepreneurial flair have lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese people out of poverty. Indeed, this great nation is at the heart of much economic progress and development in the world today.

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. 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."

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. 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.

Smrekar1 je 14. feb 2010 ob 13:32 izjavil:

teoo je 13. jan 2010 ob 15:29 izjavil:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/...

kitajska je tako ogromna, da je samozadostna in verjetno lahko z lahkoto preživi tudi v totalni izolaciji

Seveda če izpustimo majčkene podrobnosti, kot naprimer da je 90% njihove industrije neposredno odvisne od izvoza in da so za večino tehnologije krvavo odvisni od uvoza ter da so odvisni od uvoza praktično vseh naravnih dobrin.

Samozadostna kitajska bi se vrnila v 17. stoletje v 10 letih.