Welcome to Google China’s new home — In Hong Kong
At 3am Beijing time this morning, Google announced the end of Google.cn: the search engine will cease censoring Google.cn, and redirect search traffic to their Hong Kong website at Google.com.hk.
Below are links to some of the better reports and commentary about the case.
Links and Sources
- Google blog: A new approach to China: an update
- Rebecca MacKinnon: “One Google, One World; One China, No Google”
- Google China censorship list (Google’s own list of services available and blocked in China)
- Andrew Lih: In Brief: Google’s China Move (Concise guide to the isssues and technicalities)
- Reuters: Text of Chinese official comments on Google
- Xinhua: China says Google breaks promise, totally wrong to stop censoring