Google already admitted it was a mistake entering the China internet search
Google already admitted it was a mistake entering the China internet search market, and now this?
Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change of heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for the Internet’s search leader, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws requiring some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results available in other countries. The acquiescence had outraged free-speech advocates and even some shareholders, who argued Google’s cooperation with China violated the company’s “don’t be evil” motto.
The assault on Google appeared primarily aimed at breaking into the company’s e-mail service, “Gmail,” in an attempt to pry into the accounts of human right activists protesting the Chinese government’s policies.
Only two e-mail accounts were infiltrated in these attacks, Google said, and the intruders were only able to see subject lines and the dates that the individual accounts were created. None of the content written within the body of the e-mails leaked out, Google said.
This is only the beginning! Get out now! No one censors or starts calling the shots on America!