Google Considering Shutdown of Google China Due to Attacks and Censorship

After years of scrutiny and criticism from Chinese human rights advocates and governments around the world, Google has announced a new approach to its activities in China on the basis of its main corpoate tenets of unfiltered access to information.

In a blog post today, David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer has confirmed that the company has been attacked multiple times by Chinese hackers looking to access Gmail accounts owned by dozens of Chinese human rights activists.

The situation above may have served as the tipping point for Google to rescind its own censorship efforts in China, as the post goes on to announce that the search provider is no longer willing to censor its Chinese portal’s search results and is planning to hold talks with the Chinese government regarding the issue and actively attempting to operate in an unfiltered capacity within the country.

If a consensus is not reached between both parties, the company will consider shutting down its Chinese portal along with the possibility of shutting down its offices in country, while going on to emphsize that the above decisons and considerations were made in the US without the involvement of the Chinese branch.