Google announced on Thursday ongoing talks with China regarding the future of Google in the Asian nation , after the company was decided to leave because of cyberattacks and state web censorship.
“We are indeed in active discussions with the Chinese government but we are not going to engage in a running commentary about those conversations,” Google China spokeswoman Marsha Wang told AFP.
“We’ve been very clear that we are no longer going to self-censor our search results.”
“Google is firm in its decision that it will stop censoring our search results for China,” Google vice president and deputy general counsel Nicole Wong told the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
“If the option is that we’ll shutter our .cn operation and leave the country, we are prepared to do that,” she said at a hearing on the relationship between Internet technology.
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