US backs Google's China threat

Very Nice ! Very nice to see the U.S. government stand behind an American Company , instead of in front of them .
Yeah Google deserves more than their fair share of grief , for it's content censoring , But on this issue Google has put its foot down on Censorship , and little " Communist Cyber Attack Games ".
Hopefully Google sticks to their guns ,however small they may be ,

And gives China the Boot !


Al Jazeera
The US government has backed a move by Google to end its support for China's censoring of internet searches after a spate of cyber attacks on the internet giant's email accounts.

In a statement the White House said it supported the search giant's threat to possibly pull out of the country, saying the issue was important both from a point of view of the free flow of information and from a business perspective.

On Thursday US State Department officials repeated demands for an explanation from Beijing on the matter, summoning representatives from the Chinese embassy in Washington.

An official told reporters the US had expressed its "serious concerns" over the issue.

China meanwhile has said that foreign internet firms are welcome in the country provided they comply with Chinese laws barring access to censor certain sites deemed politically or socially unacceptable.

Beijing also said that Google's move to scrap its filtering of search results and possibly shut down its China operation would not affect overall economic and trade ties with the US.


Whatever.