Communist China: Google Stops Censoring Results | Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

— Google: “today we stopped censoring our search services — Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn”

Google Blog’s Official Announcement to re-route Google.cn users to uncensored Google.hk

Google Stops Censoring Results, Making Block by China Likely
— Bloomberg reports:
— “Google Inc., following through on a pledge to stop censoring search results in China, began serving mainland Chinese users via its unfiltered Hong Kong site, a move that could prompt the government to block the service.”
— “The company began redirecting traffic from its China Web page, Google.cn, to Hong Kong, a part of the country that isn’t subject to censorship laws. The move, which escalates a two- month dispute with the government over censorship, was ‘totally wrong,’ the official Xinhua news agency said.”
— “By relying on Hong Kong, Google is trying to find a way to fight censorship laws while still keeping a presence in mainland China. The approach may not work for long because the government is probably going to block the site, called Google.com.hk, just as it has before with the main Google.com page, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco.”
— “‘It’s very likely that Google.com.hk will be blocked at least as aggressively as Google.com was, and more likely, probably more aggressively,’ he said.”
— “The company challenged the government of the world’s most populous country in January by threatening to allow all search results to be shown on its China Web site, including references to Tibet and the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Google has about 600 employees in the country. Google.cn included the search engine, Google News and Google Images.”