Google’s Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China


By ANDREW JACOBS
New York Times
January 13, 2010



A makeshift tribute outside the Google office in Beijing on Wednesday, after the company said that it would consider ending its operations in China.

BEIJING — Google’s declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in China ricocheted around the world on Wednesday. But in China itself, the news was heavily censored.

Some big Chinese news portals initially carried a short dispatch on Google’s announcement, but that account soon tumbled from the headlines, and later reports omitted Google’s references to “free speechâ€