Google Makes Good on China Threat

After months of negotiations with Chinese officials, Google has stopped censoring its search and news results in China and started redirecting local users to its Hong Kong site.

The move comes after more than two months of tense negotiations with the Chinese government over a series of cyber attacks on its corporate infrastructure, which Google said originated from within the country.

In a Google corporate blog post, David Drummond, the company’s chief legal officer, said the company’s Hong Kong site is offering “uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong.”

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