This morning, Google made an announcement that the Internet Search Engine was making progress with Chinese officials on censorship changes. Now, it seems it may not be the case after all after a Chinese minister threatened that the web goliath, "will have to bear the consequences,” should it follow through on its promise to end censorship on the Chinese version of its search engine.
In January, hackings into the Chinese gmail accounts of human rights activists in China led Google to declare it would discontinue upholding government-implemented censorship. They added that should the Chinese government prevent them from doing this that they would withdraw from the billion-plus market altogether.
"I hope Google can respect Chinese rules and regulations," said China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong when questioned about how they would react to censorship ending. "If you insist on taking this action that violates Chinese laws,” he added “I repeat: you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and you yourself will have to bear the consequences."
Google has yet to respond to the threat made at a Press Conference on Friday. Yizhoung’s statement are widely different from those of Google CEO Eric Schmidt who stated that Google was nearing an agreement with the nation.
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