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Battlefield Google: Firewall China
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January 22, 2010
As we’re all well aware, Google threatened to stop providing service to China unless the government relaxed its censorship stance following a cyber attack that targeted the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and originated within China’s borders. China currently has a permanent block on social media sites Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and the government also blocks access to anything it deems pornographic, antisocial or politically subversive.
Yesterday (January 21st), however, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a statement that has sparked some unfavorable reactions from China. While basically asking China to perform an investigation into the attacks and make the results public, Clinton also said: "Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century." And in more general terms, Clinton said: "Some countries have erected electronic barriers that prevent their people from accessing portions of the world's networks… they have expunged words, names and phrases from search engine results; they have violated the privacy of citizens who engage in nonviolent political speech."
Stalwarts to the end, China still maintains that the internet is regulated according to laws that, as the country's Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu has stated, are aligned with “national conditions and cultural traditions.” Also, Ma’s spokesperson, Jiang Yu, stated that “China welcomes international internet enterprises to conduct business in China according to law."
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