Google rightly pulls out from China

Well done Google! Google, the biggest internet giant, has at last decided to do the right thing and not be an accomplice any longer in China's blatant suppression of information. And for Google to do this at this time, when China is increasingly being acknowledged as the growing economic giant to whom every country is bowing their heads in supplication, desperately eager for a cut of the huge Chinese market, Google deserves a double accolade for their bravery.

For these many years (I think, since 2006) Google had agreed to China's demand to self-censor any information that the Chinese government deemed to be injurious to themselves, regardless of the veracity or truth of those information. The two most infamous types on information that the Chinese government didn't want their population to read anything about were on the Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989) and regarding Dalai Lama - the spiritual leader of Tibet.

The catalyst for this decision by Google seems to have stemmed from some alleged cyber attack on their systems some months ago. The fear seems to be that the hacker(s) are using the (non-censored) information on Google's servers to seek out and hunt down any dissidents of China's politics and policies.

Well done Google for giving repression and suppression the finger and doing the right thing. It is good to see that at least one huge big company has not made the dollar their god.

Hillary Clinton has also just come out in support of Google's move - or more specifically, to advocate freedom of information on the internet.