Google stops censorship in China
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Google stopped censoring Internet search results in China on Monday in a move that was hailed by rights groups but drew an angry reaction from the Chinese authorities.
The Internet titan announced in a blog post that it had begun redirecting mainland Chinese users of its Chinese-language search engine Google.cn to an uncensored Google site in Hong Kong.
Google's decision came a little more than two months after the Mountain View, California-based company threatened to close its Chinese operations because of cyberattacks it said originated from China.
China reacted angrily to Google's move saying it was "totally wrong" to stop censorship and to blame Beijing for the alleged cyberattacks that Google said targeted email accounts of Chinese human rights activists around the world.
