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Google Says West Should Press China On Censorship
by NPR Staff and Wires
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The world's largest search engine is asking U.S. and European governments to put more pressure on China to stop censoring the Internet.
Google's top attorney, David Drummond, described the practice as an unfair barrier to free trade and said Western governments should defend the flow of information the same way they do products. The West has complained to the World Trade Organization that China sells its goods below cost and undermines competitors.
He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested."
Google withdrew from mainland China and stopped self-censoring searches in late March after a cyberattack compromised Google security. Google searches from China now go through Hong Kong.
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by NPR Staff and Wires
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The world's largest search engine is asking U.S. and European governments to put more pressure on China to stop censoring the Internet.
Google's top attorney, David Drummond, described the practice as an unfair barrier to free trade and said Western governments should defend the flow of information the same way they do products. The West has complained to the World Trade Organization that China sells its goods below cost and undermines competitors.
He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested."
Google withdrew from mainland China and stopped self-censoring searches in late March after a cyberattack compromised Google security. Google searches from China now go through Hong Kong.
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