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More detail ... WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100121-717467.html http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100121-717467.html It looks increasingly l
by nroach 17y ago
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It looks increasingly like the Google threat to pull out of China or stop censoring results was nothing more than a bluff: one they were destined to lose. The Chinese government isn't known for caving to public opinion or threats that don't have a very big stick in the background. Frankly, it seems naive for Google to think it could change that stance.
If Google will "continue to follow their laws" and "continue to offer censored results", that seems like a whole like folding when your bluff is called.
As to Google's line in the sand? In a "reasonably short time from now" they will "be making some changes there". That's a loophole wide enough to swallow the great wall.
- nostrademons 17y agoUmm, from the article (which is paywalled, but if you paste the title into Google you can get around that): "We continue to follow their laws, we continue to offer censored results, but at a reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes there."