BEIJING — Google’s declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday. But in China itself, the news was heavily censored.
Some big Chinese news portals initially carried a short dispatch on Google’s announcement, but that account soon tumbled from the headlines, and later reports omitted Google’s references to “free speech” and “surveillance.”
The only government response came later in the day from Xinhua, the official news agency, which ran a brief item quoting an anonymous official who was “seeking more information on Google’s statement that it could quit China.”
Google linked its decision to sophisticated cyberattacks on its computer systems that it suspected originated in China and that were aimed, at least in part, at the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists...
I am sure at least in part that Google's good buddies in the NSA might have a little better idea what the other part of the cyberattacks were all about.
Oh yes, it is a black kettle there, indeed.
One would never speculate that Google might help keep a tab on what those commie pinkos are doing, and those commie pinkos would retaliate by trying to figure out what Google knew. That is totally unfounded speculation. After all, they would ever do that to Americans, now, would they?
Sure is a black kettle, isn't it?
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