Google Stops Censoring in China

Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country's authorities.

Michael Johnston submits:Google (GOOG), the California-based search engine giant, made good on its promise to stop censoring results in China on Monday evening, upping the stakes in its showdown with the Chinese government.

Thousands of pro-democracy protestors are taking to the streets of Hong Kong ahead of a national holiday on Wednesday, and they're using a messaging app to keep in touch and defy censorship.  FireChat is a messaging app built by San Francisco-based company Open Garden, which creates products facilitating a more open, decentralized internet. 

The other day I had a little fun with Bing's search results on Windows 8 problems.  But this seems much more serious.  From a reader: No comment.

With negotiations at an impasse in the high-profile showdown that has escalated tensions between China and the United States, Google Inc.

Censorship watchdogs have grown concerned that Microsoft Bing could be filtering its Chinese-language search results for people in the U.S. in much the same way it censors the Internet inside of China.

Google said its search engine was "fully blocked" to users in mainland China, the first time that has happened since Google stopped self-censoring its search results in March.

Google said its search engine was "fully blocked" to users in mainland China, the first time that has happened since Google stopped self-censoring its search results in March.