Chinese cyber attacks

Maybe, Google should make good it’s threat to leave China after cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists.

While China could be the biggest internet market, due to its sheer size and population, if its leaders don’t respect basic human and intellectual rights, then, big business should not contribute to harm and pain that Chinese government inflicts on its workers and netizens.

We all know the sweat shops across China that pay below living standards salaries, the fake products from mobile phones to luxury items around the flea markets and tiangges and the controversies from the recent Olympic Games. And we won’t definitely the images during the Tiananmen massacre.

Photo by Jason Lee of Reuters shows a Chinese Google user delivers a bouquet of flowers outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing January 14, 2010.

Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a blog post. "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China"

David is SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google.

The internet giant also reported that accounts of China human rights activists who use Gmail in China have been "routinely accessed" by using malware sneaked onto their computers.