It's been slightly more than two months since Google first threatened to stopped censoring its search results in China. The company did this as a result of what the company called an attack on its infrastructure, originating from Chinese authorities. The hacking was an attempt to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
The report comes a day after by Li Yizhong, China's minister of industry and information technology stated that Google must obey Chinese law, or "face the consequences." Li made the statement at the National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday.
"If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible, and you will have to pay the consequences"If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible, and you will have to pay the consequences, Whether they leave or not is up to them. But if they leave, China's Internet market is still going to develop."Unlike its overwhelming global market share, Google in China has only a 30 percent share of a market dominated by Baidu, a Chinese company.
The FT's source said:
[...] that its senior executives remained “adamant” about ending the censorship. The company has also ruled out keeping the search service going by handing majority control, or even the entire business, to a local player.On Wednesday, while in the UAE, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that negotiations are continuing and that he expects a resolution soon.
Despite any legalities involved in the matter, many have been critical of the actions of not just Google, whose unofficial motto is "Don't be evil," but also Microsoft, Yahoo!, and more. In 2007, for example, a Chinese political prisoner sued Yahoo! in U.S. federal court, stating that the company essentially aided the Chinese government in torturing him by providing information that led to his arrest.
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