I am kind of surprised about the Google China's decision, because a lot of global enterprises, once they decided to enter the important emerging market of China, need to be ready to adapt to all kinds of invisible rules or laws, such as the censorship and taxation. I heard that one friend was curious about my attitude about it, and some lab mates discussed it in lab as well.
From my opinion, firstly, I have the same feeling with ZZ. Google China does not set up firmly and positive image in China, because of the scandal of plagiarism of the Chinese input product - Goolge pinyin. And as far as I known, Google China did not release any popular, useful products respect to Chinese market which can actually efficiently change Chinese user's surfing habits. And most of the things they did, according to a lot of people's eyes, just translate all the popular products into Chinese. But Google China still is one of the best dream working places for all computer science college students. Even though, a lot of them felt disappointed about those scandals comparing with its famous slogan - "Don't be evil".
As for the censorship, I remember a lot of web sites we can't get access. However, some of them might have cached page in Google search engine. That's the first time, I felt that there were still some people fighting against it. And I appreciated it. Now it announced to quit Chinese market. I don't know it is the sorrow of Chinese people or the giant company.
Last year, Chinese government enforcedly blocked a lot of Google's service during the insurrection of Urumqi and the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square event, as well as a lot of other websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Even the e-mail services were sacrificed during certain period. As a company, facing those unfair situation will affect their efficiency of operation. But all the Chinese people are standing at your site.
China has more than 300 million people on-line everyday. If they can just get all the information from the filtered news or stories. The fairy tell - The emperor's new suit, might the most suitable description for the situation. I hope Chinese people would have more speech freedom, but there should be a way to give their channel to express. Right now the organism of Chinese government is kind of loss this function. Even though the media power is not the pivot of solving these problem, at least, it will arise public attention for those are still willing to devote themselves on the current Chinese situation.
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