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(皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2010-03-19 08:01
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Google is free to leave 皇冠体育app. But if it chooses to stay, it has to follow 皇冠体育app's laws, says an article in Xinhua net. Excerpts:
On March 10, senior Google officials threatened to run its online search engine without following 皇冠体育app's laws even if its website was blocked in the country.
Two days later, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong made it clear that it was up to Google to decide whether it wanted stay in 皇冠体育app or pull out. But if it chooses to stay and violates 皇冠体育app's laws, it will be held accountable for its actions.
Google and its backers are politicizing the issue by blaming 皇冠体育app's Internet supervision for creating the problem. Even in the country where Google is headquartered, government officials regularly search people's e-mails by invoking the Patriot Act. Many US states, too, have passed laws on Internet supervision. Despite all this, Google finds trouble only with 皇冠体育app's laws.
It is ridiculous for Google to blame 皇冠体育app's laws for pulling out its services from the country when it follows similar regulations in other countries. This is all the more reason why its attempt to politicize and drum up support should be condemned.
(皇冠体育app Daily 03/19/2010 page9)
