> Google for instance decided to just pull out of the market Not out of any moral sense. They were pissed off that China kept hacking their data centers. >In

> Google for instance decided to just pull out of the market Not out of any moral sense. They were pissed off that China kept hacking their data centers. >In the end, though, it wasn’t censorship or competition that drove Google out of China. It was a far-­reaching hacking attack known as Operation Aurora that targeted everything from Google’s intellectual property to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The attack, which Google said came from within China, pushed company leadership over the edge. https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-google-took-on-china-and-lost/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-googl... They went on to create a censored search engine, named after their founder's mega-yacht, to try to get back into China. > Google’s internal project to bring censored search back to China, Dragonfly, was kept secret until revealed by The Intercept. Internal dissent, objections from senators and the vice president, and worldwide protests followed. https://theintercept.com/collections/google-dragonfly-china/ https://theintercept.com/collections/google-dragonfly-china/