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Article

13 Apr 2006

Author:
Jim Yardley, New York Times

Google Chief Rejects Putting Pressure on China

Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt...defended the decision to cooperate with the censors..."We had a choice to enter the country and follow the law...Or we had a choice not to enter the country."...he said, "We believe the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one." Mr. Schmidt said Google's China strategy had been hotly debated inside the company. He called its final choice a difficult but principled decision...Google's regular, unfiltered search engine is still available in China, although it is significantly slowed by the Chinese censors. And the filtered search engine does notify a user when information has been censored. In addition, Google has not introduced e-mail or blogging to avoid being told to turn over personal information on cyberdissidents to officials. [also refers to Microsoft, Yahoo!]