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Google Vs China v3

Google pulls out of China due to censorship demands (2010) In 2010, Google announced it would no longer censor search results in China and may pull out of the country due to repeated threats from Chinese authorities to force censorship. This came after cyberattacks traced to China targeted Google. In July 2010, China renewed Google's license but the conflict over internet censorship remained ongoing.

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Google Vs China v3

Google pulls out of China due to censorship demands (2010) In 2010, Google announced it would no longer censor search results in China and may pull out of the country due to repeated threats from Chinese authorities to force censorship. This came after cyberattacks traced to China targeted Google. In July 2010, China renewed Google's license but the conflict over internet censorship remained ongoing.

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Recent Brawl between Google & China Government

Group 5
Tan Yi San
Wong Yu Li
Chetna Bhasin
Teo Ee Siang, Kenneth
Sreetama Bhattacharya
Timeline

Jan 2006: Google June 2010:


rolls out Oct 2009: Feb 2010: NYT reports Beijing threatens Aug 2010:
Google.cn that Chinese authors the hacking attacks on to shut its Google Wenda
censors search accuse Google of Google traced to two operation down by Q&A service
results violating copyrights schools in China the end of June blocked in China.

June 2009: Jan 2010: Google announces Mar 2010:


Google puts a halt to July 2010:
google.com, gmail it is no longer willing to
its China search China renews
and other Google censor searches in China;
Google web
services became may pull out of the country engine, redirecting
the site to its search license, appearing
inaccessible to to accept a
users in China site based in HK
which is uncensored compromise
Jan 2006: Google rolls
out Google.cn, its
China-based search
page that censors
search results in
accordance with
Chinese rules
June 2009:
Google.com, Gmail and
other Google online
services became
inaccessible to many
users in China. A
Chinese official accuses
Google of spreading
obscene content over
the Internet
Oct 2009: A group of
Chinese authors accuses
Google of violating
copyrights with its
digital library, with
many threatening to sue
Jan 2010: Google announces it is no
longer willing to censor searches in
China and may pull out of the
country. Hillary Clinton, the US
secretary of state, calls on Beijing to
carry out a “thorough” and
“transparent” investigation into the
cyberattacks said to be triggered by
Google’s announcement to stop
censorship in China
Feb 2010: The NYT
reports the hacking
attacks on Google had
been traced to two
schools in China. The
schools deny
involvement
Mar 2010: Google puts a
halt to its China search
engine, redirecting the
site to its search site
based in Hong Kong
which is uncensored
June 2010: Beijing
threatens to shut its
operation down by the
end of June
July 2010: China renews Google
web license to operate in China,
appearing to accept a
compromise offered by the US
search engine over internet
censorship
Aug 2010: Google
Wenda Q&A
service blocked in
China.
What happened?

• Google pulls out of China (1 min 28 secs)


What happened?
During 2008, Chinese authorities repeatedly
threatened Google to allow for internet
censorship.
Google did not budge. ..

In June 2009, Google’s global
website was blocked in China.

In March 2010 Google puts a halt to its China


search engine, redirecting users to its HK site.
Beijing’s threatening and cyber attack
on Google continues…

July 2010: China renews Google web license. But, the problems are far from being over.
This is just the beginning of a global cyber warfare..
What led to the event?
Internet Censorship: Chinese regulators
wanted to “punish” Google for failing to
remove pornographic content as well as
politically sensitive information after
repeated threatening.

Copyrights issue: Chinese authors and


copyrights groups demanded
compensation from Google for scanning
books by for their digital library.
What went wrong?
Strategic incompatibility of a tech company like
Google and an authoritarian state like China

: Conflicting vision & strategy


Free & open Internet vs Censoring some results

: Chinese government’s
desire to control
Chinese Communist Party
fears social instability and has
strong desire to keep tabs on
dissidents and limit freedom
of expression
What went wrong?
Doing business in China is just not easy
Restrictions on sale of foreign movies, books, music and other media while
appealing a WTO ruling that these policies violate China’s legally binding
commitments to the international free trade system
How could Google have
avoided the incident?
From a political perspective

Respect the Chinese laws,


and continue its self-
censorship as decided 5
years ago in 2005

Understand exactly what the Chinese


Government wants and be clear about the
rules on doing business in China i.e. political,
cultural and “GuanXi”
How could Google have
avoided the incident?
From a technology and IT perspective
Would IT Governance have avoided the situation?

The tech crowd is With the right amount


pointing to vulnerabilities of governance in
in Internet Explorer and place, rogue
there is a solid argument applications and
about the ability to use IE activities may not
to hack into the gmail have been allowed to
accounts infiltrate the
infrastructure
Question is.. Did Google want to avoid it?
Analyst estimates of Google's annual revenue in
China range from $300 million to $600 million, a
small portion of its $24 billion annual revenue.

According to Enders Analysis, Google.cn takes about


20% of the money from paid search advertising in
China, which is lower than its market share

Revenue foregone over 2010-15 from closing


Google.cn to be between $2-4bn

Five-year cost of dropping out of China


somewhere between 8.5% and 17% of revenue
earned in 2009 - Insignificant

Facts:
pt 1. Censorship is against Google’s philosophy of “Don’t be evil”
pt 2. The founders of Google will never be removed from the board according to the chapter
Other interesting issues
Evidence of Biggest
Global Power Shift??
 Analysts say that China’s willingness to stand up to Western
firms is a consequence of its meteoric economic rise
 The government doesn’t need Westerners’ investment as much
as it once did, and it is increasingly bald-faced about its desire to
acquire their technology
 “The Google affair is both catalyst and evidence of change,” said
Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Dragonomics, a Beijing-
based economics firm
 “We are at a turning point. It had been very, very unusual for
foreign business to say anything too negative about China
because the opportunities here were too large.”
Other interesting issues
Blackberry a threat to National Security??
 Increasingly global debate over censorship and digital privacy
 Government censors in both Saudi Arabia and UAE routinely
block access to websites and other media deemed to carry
content that runs contrary to the nations' conservative Islamic
values or that could stoke political unrest
 Authorities in Saudi Arabia
and the UAE say BlackBerrys
operate outside of existing
regulations
 Will affect 700,000 Blackberry
users
 RIM has agreed to install
servers in Saudi Arabia so that
messages sent can be
monitored

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