Hacked Google Considers Out of China

The search giant, called Valley Song (Guge) in China, is finally throwing a rock into the boat and said Enough is Enough to the Chinese censor.

For years, Google has been willingly or unwillingly cooperating with Beijing and put a tight filter over what you see from searching "sensitive" words, such as Tiananmen, June Fourth, and many more. Now after severely hacked by Chinese hackers, the company said NO, even at the expense of pulling out of China altogether.

But there are also augments that Google is just a recent casualty of heating competition in Chinese search engine market, especially facing another giant Baidu. Google is citing the excuse as a face saving way to slip out of the red door.

Whatever the reasons, and it may take a while to find out the true motivations, the pullout of Google, if it so happens, will be a milestone to Chinese Great Firewall, as it serves to tell the tale that even you are as formidable as Google, you either have to compete or withdraw, half-hearted and half-closed eyes to censorship are simply not an option.