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"Because, worst of all, Google is effectively walking away. A human rights situation that they could have had a voice in is abandoned." If the firewall entirel

"Because, worst of all, Google is effectively walking away. A human rights situation that they could have had a voice in is abandoned." If the firewall entirely blocks Google, what more could they do? From what I gathered, the Chinese would have to effectively make it impossible to access Google, and at that point, what more can the company do? Sure they can try and invent ways to circumvent the firewall, but do you expect them to do that? If not, don't call that walking away.

dtf 17y ago
Interesting that there has been no response from Beijing yet. We're all waiting for them to add the now-unfiltered google.cn to the firewall, but doing so would be in some way accepting Google's argument - making them look weak. I guess their best option would be to make no formal response to Google's allegations, leave the site unblocked for a few weeks until everyone loses interest, and then block it on a routine batch with a load of other sites... ideally when something more important has just happened in the rest of the world.