The Globe and Mail reports:
Risking both billions of dollars in potential revenue and the prospect of triggering an Internet fault line, the world's biggest search engine is threatening to cease operations in China.
Citing a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack on its corporate infrastructure that appeared aimed at stealing intellectual property and spying on human-rights activists, Google said on Tuesday it will no longer censor search results on the Chinese version of its site, and may shut down its operations altogether in China, one of the fastest-growing markets in the world.
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This will be a watershed moment in history. It is either the beginning of the fall of a communist bloc, or the balkanization of the internet!
As Obama bows to the East
the ultimate free-enterprise no-borders internet-cloud company calls Beijing's bluff. "We're not playing your game anymore!" The audacity of it all!
