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"Google has undertaken a bet-the-farm confrontational communications approach in China. They will not have made this decision lightly. Dressed up in the polite language above is what is essentially an ultimatum: Allow us to present uncensored search results to our Chinese users or we'll walk."
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"Google's decision was tough and is going to have a great deal of of difficult fallout. Still, based on what I know, I think Google has done the right thing. They are sending a very public message – which people in China are hearing – that the Chinese government's approach to Internet regulation is unacceptable and poisonous."
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"last night Google announced it would lift the censorship, the Chinese internet users flooded to the website to search for all the sensitive terms they never had a chance to access. In twitters, forums, discussion boards, we witness an explosion of talks about Google and its possible departure, or exile, from China."
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February 25, 2010 at 9:58 am
raidenslair
Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
“We made a strong statement that we wish to remain in China,”
“We like the Chinese people, we like our Chinese employees. We like the business opportunities there, but we’d like to do that on somewhat different terms than we have but we remain quite committed to being there.“
“Our business in China is today unchanged,“
“We continue to follow their laws, we continue to offer censored results. But in a reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes there.”
No china exit for Google, just a lot of hot air