Google has posted some more information regarding this topic to their own
blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Via SFGate.com (AP).
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> [snip]
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> Google Inc. said Tuesday it might end its operations in China after it
> discovered that the e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been
> breached.
>
> The company disclosed in a blog post [1] that it had detected a "highly
> sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure
> originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary
> goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human
> rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer
> David Drummond.
>
> Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company
> added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on
> its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google says the
> decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in
> the country.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/12/financial/f1503
> 41S73.DTL
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> - - ferg
>
> [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
>
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