Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship
A Chinese Internet user browses for information on the popular search engine Google. Photograph: Reuters/Corbis
by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010
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.
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