快讯：谷歌官方宣布考虑全面退出中国市场(图)
北京时间1月13日早间消息，据国外媒体报道，谷歌在其官方博客上宣布，该公司不愿再对其中国版搜索引擎Google.cn的搜索结果进行审查，并承认这项决定可能意味着Google.cn将不得不关闭，可能连谷歌驻中国的办事处也会关闭。
谷歌(Google Inc.)表示正在评估公司中国业务运营的可行性，并可能完全退出中国市场，因为该公司透露，他们遭受了据信来自中国大陆的重大网络袭击。
谷歌周二在一份博客文章中表达了上述想法。谷歌在博文中称，去年12月中旬，他们侦测到一次来自中国、针对公司基础架构的高技术、有针对性的攻击，这次攻击导致其知识产权被盗。
该博文说，谷歌相信攻击者的目标是进入中国人权活动人士的Gmail账户，但似乎只有两个Gmail账户被进入。
由谷歌首席法律顾问大卫·多姆德(David Drummond)执笔的这篇博文称，这些攻击、攻击所揭示的监视行为，以及在过去一年试图进一步限制网络言论自由的行为使得谷歌得出这样一个结论，那就是我们应该评估中国业务运营的可行性。
多姆德写道，公司已经决定不愿再审查我们在Google.cn上的搜索结果，因此，如果可能，公司将在未来几周公司和中国政府讨论在什么样的基础上我们能够在法律框架内运营未经过滤的搜索引擎。我们承认这很可能意味着公司将不得不关闭Google.cn，以及我们在中国的办公室。
谷歌在同意审查其搜索结果的情况下于2006年推出了中文搜索引擎Google.cn。
Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 12, 2010; 8:17 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computers hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change-of-heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for Google, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws that require some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results that are available in other countries.
Google disclosed in a blog post that it had detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company long associated with a motto of "don't be evil" added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google said the decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in the country.
It's unclear how much of a blow to its business Google would suffer by pulling out. China has the world's largest population of Internet users, but Google has struggled to expand in the country, where it has less than 30 percent of the search market, versus more than 60 percent for local rival Baidu Inc.
The larger effect could be in how global Internet companies operate in China.
"Google has taken a bold and difficult step for Internet freedom in support of fundamental human rights," said Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a civil-liberties group in Washington. "No company should be forced to operate under government threat to its core values or to the rights and safety of its users."
Danny O'Brien, international outreach coordinator at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, said Google's rejection of government demands to censor "changes the game because the question won't be 'How can we work in China?' but 'How can we create services that Chinese people can use, from outside of China?'"
But Clothilde Le Coz, Washington director for Reporters Without Borders, warned that Google's move doesn't necessarily mean more information will be available to the average Chinese person.
"The Chinese government is one of the most efficient in terms of censoring the Web," she said. The media watchdog group has long criticized Google and other Internet companies for caving to China's censorship regime.
A spokesman for the Chinese consulate in San Francisco had no immediate comment.
Google, whose headquarters is in Mountain View, Calif., first agreed to censor search results in China in 2006 when it created a version of its search engine bearing China's Web suffix, ".cn." Previously, Chinese-language results had been available through the company's main Google.com site.
To obtain its Chinese license, Google agreed to omit Web content that the country's government found objectionable. At the time Google executives said they struggled with how to reconcile the censorship concessions with the company's "don't be evil" motto.
By then Yahoo Inc. had come under fire for giving Chinese officials information about the online activities of two journalists, who were then arrested, convicted and sentenced to 10-year prison terms for allegedly leaking state secrets and political writings. Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. was criticized for shutting down, at Beijing's request, a popular Chinese blog that touches on sensitive topics such as press freedoms.
北京时间1月13日早间消息，据国外媒体报道，谷歌在其官方博客上宣布，该公司不愿再对其中国版搜索引擎Google.cn的搜索结果进行审查，并承认这项决定可能意味着Google.cn将不得不关闭，可能连谷歌驻中国的办事处也会关闭。
谷歌(Google Inc.)表示正在评估公司中国业务运营的可行性，并可能完全退出中国市场，因为该公司透露，他们遭受了据信来自中国大陆的重大网络袭击。
谷歌周二在一份博客文章中表达了上述想法。谷歌在博文中称，去年12月中旬，他们侦测到一次来自中国、针对公司基础架构的高技术、有针对性的攻击，这次攻击导致其知识产权被盗。
该博文说，谷歌相信攻击者的目标是进入中国人权活动人士的Gmail账户，但似乎只有两个Gmail账户被进入。
由谷歌首席法律顾问大卫·多姆德(David Drummond)执笔的这篇博文称，这些攻击、攻击所揭示的监视行为，以及在过去一年试图进一步限制网络言论自由的行为使得谷歌得出这样一个结论，那就是我们应该评估中国业务运营的可行性。
多姆德写道，公司已经决定不愿再审查我们在Google.cn上的搜索结果，因此，如果可能，公司将在未来几周公司和中国政府讨论在什么样的基础上我们能够在法律框架内运营未经过滤的搜索引擎。我们承认这很可能意味着公司将不得不关闭Google.cn，以及我们在中国的办公室。
谷歌在同意审查其搜索结果的情况下于2006年推出了中文搜索引擎Google.cn。
Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 12, 2010; 8:17 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computers hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change-of-heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for Google, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws that require some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results that are available in other countries.
Google disclosed in a blog post that it had detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company long associated with a motto of "don't be evil" added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google said the decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in the country.
It's unclear how much of a blow to its business Google would suffer by pulling out. China has the world's largest population of Internet users, but Google has struggled to expand in the country, where it has less than 30 percent of the search market, versus more than 60 percent for local rival Baidu Inc.
The larger effect could be in how global Internet companies operate in China.
"Google has taken a bold and difficult step for Internet freedom in support of fundamental human rights," said Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a civil-liberties group in Washington. "No company should be forced to operate under government threat to its core values or to the rights and safety of its users."
Danny O'Brien, international outreach coordinator at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, said Google's rejection of government demands to censor "changes the game because the question won't be 'How can we work in China?' but 'How can we create services that Chinese people can use, from outside of China?'"
But Clothilde Le Coz, Washington director for Reporters Without Borders, warned that Google's move doesn't necessarily mean more information will be available to the average Chinese person.
"The Chinese government is one of the most efficient in terms of censoring the Web," she said. The media watchdog group has long criticized Google and other Internet companies for caving to China's censorship regime.
A spokesman for the Chinese consulate in San Francisco had no immediate comment.
Google, whose headquarters is in Mountain View, Calif., first agreed to censor search results in China in 2006 when it created a version of its search engine bearing China's Web suffix, ".cn." Previously, Chinese-language results had been available through the company's main Google.com site.
To obtain its Chinese license, Google agreed to omit Web content that the country's government found objectionable. At the time Google executives said they struggled with how to reconcile the censorship concessions with the company's "don't be evil" motto.
By then Yahoo Inc. had come under fire for giving Chinese officials information about the online activities of two journalists, who were then arrested, convicted and sentenced to 10-year prison terms for allegedly leaking state secrets and political writings. Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. was criticized for shutting down, at Beijing's request, a popular Chinese blog that touches on sensitive topics such as press freedoms.
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