The hacker attack against Google, as well as his decision, but should be contextualized. In recent days, for example, Baidu, the most used search engine in China, was also a victim of a hacker attack in a double-generated in the same mainland China, the other organized by Iranian hackers
.
Coincidenze a parte, va sottolineato come la storia di Google in Cina abbia vissuto negli ultimi tempi dei forti contrasti con le autorità governative che hanno implicitamente agevolato il consolidamento di Baidu nel mercato cinese. Lo scorso luglio, il motore di ricerca statunitense è stato oscurato anche perché accusato di non soddisfare le richieste della così dette campagna
anti volgarità
e considerato colpevole per agevolare le ricerche di pagine web contenenti materiale pornografico. Alcune ricerche incrociate hanno successivamente messo in evidenza come Baidu sia molto meno affidabile nel contrastare la segnalazione di siti erotici on line.
L’azione dei media ufficiali (
the CTTV
devoted an episode of the program to analyze the 1 +1 event) caused a loss of image the company despite numerous supportive of Chinese bloggers post. A few months later another key episode: the resignation of the director of Google China: Li Kaifu , according to some, gained little from the predisposition of the leadership of the U.S. to treat about the demands of the Chinese government.
Maybe even taking account of this episode many Chinese citizens have been deeply affected. Google to call for solidarity were expressed on Twitter (even though the service is obscured in China however, were identified by all'hashtag
# googlecn ). Expressions of affection were also recorded in Beijing near the site of the search engine where some students celebrated a sort of funeral flowers spreading. Singular the reaction of the Department of Science and Tsinghua University TECHNOLOGY which has official authorization issued by the same university to all students who wish to bring flowers near the headquarters of Google China, without which it would undergo illegal act.
addition to the many Chinese citizens who express their solidarity should record that some influential Western observers, like Rebecca MacKinnon
from the pages of the WSJ and Geremy Goldkorn from the pages of the Guardian
, appreciate the courageous decision of Google.
Ethics aside, we must not forget that since 2006, when it entered the Chinese market, Google has managed to get only one third of the market search engines. The competition is so marked that Baidu's revenues Chinese search engine are twice those obtained by the Mountain View giant that counts among its consumers a user-educated mainly composed only of students and white collar, a limit which comes from a brand not quite said. Yet the scope for growth, however, seemed to engineers backed by a very good park and the increasingly promising market for mobile telephony.
The impression is that your Google derives also (perhaps more appropriate to say would know above all) by economic and strategic interests as pointed out
Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch and
Evgeny Morozov in Foreign Policy (link suggested by Tommaso Facchin ).
In this regard it will be interesting to see the fallout of this choice on the decisions of other giants of the Web (but not only, and consequently the relationship between NGOs, promoters human rights and other figures "hostile" in Beijing) in relation to the willingness to compromise with the authorities. In this regard it is perhaps no coincidence that on 26 December Bing has used a photo of the mausoleum of Mao in the background of his home page?
Among other considerations, it is worthwhile to propose a tweet
Li Kaifu, which complains that "a captain can not abandon its commitments, even if the ship is sinking, "and to Kaiser Kuo, a musician second of the Tang Dynasty, the Western media supporters while supporting Google in abandoning
China should also consider the situation of Chinese users.
Meanwhile several sources claim that today, thanks to Google, you can view web sites relating to the riots in Tiananmen Square, the religious movement of the websites Fanlungong as close to the Dalai Lama. It will be interesting to know how to react to this drastic decision, the official bodies, the official information when many sites are silent, even though the New China News Agency seems to have officially recognized the magnitude of the event.
In any case, the developments will have consequences of historical importance.
Fonti e approfondimenti
Il post ufficiale di Google. A new approach to China
Google vs Cina le prime reazioni
(Cina Oggi)
Googlebacktochina (un sito creato per l’occasione con alcuni commenti illustri tra cui quello del famoso blogger Keso)
Gmail security brach, want some proof?
(China Hush)
Altro insieme di link sull’argomento proposti dall’autorevole CDT
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