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Article

13 Jan 2010

Author:
David Pierson & Barbara Demik, Los Angeles Times

Chinese Internet users praise Google's threat to exit

...[While] Chinese cyberspace was awash with chatter on Google's gambit, state-media downplayed the news Tuesday, saying Google had been a victim of cyber attacks in China but made no mention that the company also alleged human rights activists had their e-mail accounts hacked. Nevertheless, word spread quickly among China's savvier Internet users that...[Google] was no longer willing to censor its Chinese-language search engine. Some noticed that Google searches for the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown turned up the banned, but iconic, photograph of a protester standing in front of a line of tanks. "It is the first time a company this size has made a stand like this. People are cheering Google," said Jeremy Goldkorn, whose influential website, danwei.org, has been blocked since last summer by China's...Great Firewall. Bei Feng, a blogger who led a campaign to abolish the firewall, said..."I admire Google's decision a lot"...