(IT) 중국 vs. 구글 결투
(IT) 중국 vs. 구글 결투
Duel결투. China strikes back against the American giant Google on the issue of free speech. Who will win this battle of the goliath? And we’ll move on now the battle of the titans, ratcheted it up another notch tonight. And we mean the nation of China vs. the independent nation of Google. As we told you last night that giant American company Google has mounted an assault on China’s wall of censorship routing all Google searches in China through Hong Kong where criticism is allowed. But today the Chinese matched Google’s breach위반 in their wall with another wall. Game on. Here’s Clarissa Ward in Beijing.
In this heavy weight battle, Google is trying to get around the so called great firewall of China moving its search engine from the mainland to Hong Kong. Today the Chinese fired back saying we can block you there, too. So at the moment if I go to Google’s Chinese website, I’m automatically rerouted to their Hong Kong server. By type in a random search like New York, I get a normal page of results. But if I try to type in a politically sensitive term like Tiananmen Massacre, I get absolutely nothing. The great firewall in action.
“China has expanded an extraordinary amount of energy and resource to block various portions of the Internet. They have employed tens of thousands of Internet police and a significant array of technologies.” The stakes in this war are high. Google’s Chinese search engine made an estimated $300 million last year. And China is the largest Internet market in the world with close to 400 million Internet users and it’s growing by 250,000 everyday.
Today, Google’s chief rival Microsoft said it will still abide by China’s censorship rules. “We have done business in China for more than 20 years and we intend to continue our business there.” Ultimately the biggest loser in this may be all those Internet users here in China. So we’re shooting here in this Internet café and a man just came up to us. He didn’t want to be seen on camera, but he slipped us a piece of paper and it says “We support Google always!” Today a sign of that support at their headquarters here in China as everyone waits to see who will fire the next shot. Clarissa Ward, ABC News, Beijing.