Google pulls out of China

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I've just heard that Google has made the long awaited decision to pull out of China. This is a difficult subject because Googles intention is to hurt the Chinese Government but actually it is the Chinese people that will feel the impact the most.

Weighing it all up though i do think that the decision Google took to go into China originally on the conditions set by Beijing was absolutely wrong.

I mean - How can Google provide what became a very diluted service with only content that was approved by the Govt? surely thats like providing a pie with no filling?

When you start to apply this type of "moral conditioning" to access to information the internet loses some of its potency and its unique ability to connect people in as genuine a way as possible that digital communication allows.

However, watch this space - the Chinese people have had a taste and it may be much more difficult to put this tiger back in the cage than the Chinese government thinks!

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