Google threatens to leave China. The dramatic announcement came yesterday from the headquarters in Mountain View, California in Silicon Valley, after an escalation of tension between the Internet giant and the Beijing regime. The top of Google have revealed that their search engine - in the version in Mandarin - has been the subject of increasingly frequent attacks by Chinese hackers who are suspected of being at the service of state censorship.
most serious attacks, which led to the announcement yesterday, have failed to e-mail of some human rights activists, as well as large Western companies. In a group blog, the Google executives have yesterday evening revealed to have "discovered a highly sophisticated and targeted attack against our infrastructure, which originated from China." Further internal investigations have confirmed that the main target were "G-mail accounts of several civil rights activists."
Google has not explicitly accused the Chinese government to be the director of this violation. However, the reaction of the Californian group leaves no doubt. In fact, as a response to this unprecedented attack, Google has decided that it will leak more information on its Chinese site. Stop that is the policy of cooperation with the authorities of the PRC in the past had been the subject of controversy in the United States according to the NGO that defend human rights in fact Google would have practiced a "collaboration" with the censorship regime, just to have access to the largest online market in the world (as well as Yahoo who came to patches of denunciation to the police the personal email of a Chinese dissident) .
The beginning of collusion with the Chinese government was in 2006: in that year that Google has opened the Mandarin version of its search engine, and then a site that ends with the suffix. "Cn". But now that pact with the regime is in crisis. If Google stops to filter its search engine in Mandarin, in all likelihood the Chinese government block access and could permanently darken. In the past Beijing has not hesitated to remove the visibility of Google, or sites like Wikipedia, if not agreed to "purge" spontaneously. Among the demands of the Chinese Ministry of Information, for example, there is a cancellation of the sites that defend the rights of Tibet and Xinjiang. To be authorized to operate in the Chinese market, Google has now installed the software that automatically prevents access to sites or words that are taboo for the regime's propaganda. A heavy price to pay, in exchange for the possibility of contact with 300 million Internet users: the online audience that China has now overtaken the United States.
front of the last provocation, Google appears to have estimated that the price d'immagine da pagare verso l'opinione pubblica americana rischia di essere troppo elevato. Il motto dei fondatori dell'azienda di Mountain Valley, dopotutto, รจ "don't be evil", non essere malvagi.
Federico Rampini
www.repubblica.it
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