The great wall / war between China and Google
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010According to Wired Magazine 12 years ago China had 620.000 Internet users, now they are 338 million. Therefore it is a important market for every Big corporation out there. They’re censoring system has made it hard for companies like Google, twitter and yahoo to find their place in China‘s Internet. There is a great firewall blacklisting sites for hundreds of millions searches each hour in all China. There is in China growing movement for having the internet open and free and more and more people have made it through the “wall”
Now in the beginning of 2010 a battle has started between a big corporation and a country regarding the issue of censoring searches and limited use of the internet for the Chinese people. Google takes on China, saying they will get out of China they had been burglarized and what was stolen was personal information of users. Now Hilary Clinton has made comment on the subject. It is a big case for China, loosing Google can have effects on the whole economy and loosing China for Goggle is looking a huge and soon largest online market for internet users.
