r. carey gersten » human rights http://www.rcareygersten.com active consulting participant in adventure + communication + ecohumanitarian + technology projects Sat, 22 May 2010 17:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks http://www.rcareygersten.com/google-to-end-censorship-in-china-over-cyber-attacks/ http://www.rcareygersten.com/google-to-end-censorship-in-china-over-cyber-attacks/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:32:09 +0000 Carey http://www.rcareygersten.com/?p=985 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.

Read on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/12/google-china-ends-censorship

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