Google Leaves China

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It’s official. Google is shutting down Google.cn.
That URL is now being redirected to Google’s uncensored Hong Kong site.
Google’s announcement:

‘On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered?

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