The combination of China's demand that Google censor search results, and a Chinese attempt to hack into the gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, has led Google to a sweeping reassessment of its business relationship with China.
Google's new, ethics-driven approach to China was announced on its official blog
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
Rebecca MacKinnon details the reaction in China.
Google is pushing back against evil, and we applaud.
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