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Censorship: Google considers pulling out of China

13.01.2010

A surprising move from Google: the world's biggest search engine is considering closing its Chinese offices and online services. Reason is the continuous Chinese Internet censorship of the search engine. In addition, the internet giant complains that several e-mail accounts of human rights activists were hacked.

Google is considering its withdrawal from China and will no longer tolerate censorship and hacker attacks on e-mail accounts.

A surprising move from Google: the world's biggest search engine is considering closing its Chinese offices and online services. Reason is the continuous Chinese Internet censorship of the search engine. In addition, the internet giant complains that several e-mail accounts of human rights activists were hacked.

Google is considering its withdrawal from China and will no longer tolerate censorship and hacker attacks on e-mail accounts.

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