{"id":97,"date":"2010-07-09T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/09\/china-allows-google-to-keep-doing-business\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:38:26","slug":"china-allows-google-to-keep-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/09\/china-allows-google-to-keep-doing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"China allows Google to keep doing business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/07\/google_china.jpg\" title=\"Google China\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/07\/google_china.jpg\" alt=\"Google China\" align=\"left\" height=\"210\" width=\"293\" \/><\/a>A few months ago it looked like Google might abandon its business operations and Web presence in China, but the situation has changed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Some brief background: A sophisticated <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/12\/google-china-attacks\/\" title=\"TechCrunch\">cyber attack<\/a> against Google&#8217;s technology infrastructure last January was launched from within China, and Google believed that the attack targeted Chinese human-rights activists.\u00a0 In response Google began automatically re-directing visitors from Google&#8217;s censored China search page to its uncensored Hong Kong version.\u00a0 Google even issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/new-approach-to-china.html\" title=\"Google Blog\">strongly-worded statement<\/a> threatening to close its business offices in China.\u00a0 Google has filtered its Chinese site&#8217;s search results since 2006 to comply with Chinese government mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, China was not happy with Google&#8217;s new strategy.\u00a0 Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/update-on-china.html\" title=\"Google blog-China update\">backpedalled<\/a> somewhat last week by re-establishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.hk\/webhp?hl=zh-CN&amp;sourceid=cnhp\" title=\"google.cn\">Google.cn<\/a>.\u00a0 Google now offers less controversial services like music search and text translate from its Chinese page along with a link to its Hong Kong page for regular searching.\u00a0 China accepted Google&#8217;s comprise approach when it <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/07\/09\/google-china-license\/\" title=\"Google gets license to operate renewed\">renewed Google&#8217;s operating license<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think of Google&#8217;s compromise?\u00a0 Is it better for Google to continue offering its services, albeit in a modified manner, or should Google have stuck to its guns?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago it looked like Google might abandon its business operations and Web presence in China, but the situation has changed dramatically. Some brief background: A sophisticated cyber attack against Google&#8217;s technology infrastructure last January was launched from within China, and Google believed that the attack targeted Chinese human-rights activists.\u00a0 In response Google <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/09\/china-allows-google-to-keep-doing-business\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}