Censorship, Whaaaa?

Google has announced that they will be relocating their search engine to Hong Kong in order to get around the agreement with China to censor many a websites. Now, the government can still censor what they like, but Google is taking a stand! Google is willing to pull their sales from China due to censorship, despite financial ramifications.



Now who remembers when Hong Kong became free from the British rule about 15 years ago? Because of that, Hong Kong gets special privileges. Like, political freedom to an extent, and less censorship. While Hong Kong is still part of China, the officials are handpicked by the Chinese government. Google is certainly put a certain strain on Hong Kong's limited freedom of search engines.

China, scary upcoming superpower, may have more financial prowess than anticipated. While the margin of Google's revenue is not huge, there is much possibility for growth.

By the way, I applaud Google. A standing ovation. From the previous entry: woo!