Today Google at their official blog have announced that they will no longer be operating Google.cn and all hits to this page will be directed to Google.hk
Google has taken this action had been in response to the cyber attacks on Google and other companies which originated from China and later it was discovered that Gmail account of several human right activists in China had been compromised and other censorships in China had compelled Google to shutdown their China portal and shift the traffic to Hong Kong portal providing freedom of speech and uncensored search for the Chinese people .
Since today , Google has stopped censoring their services mainly Google Search, Google News, and Google Images in China through HK servers.
Google is well aware that the Chinese government may close down Google.hk or block access to it through mainland , so they have started a daily status check page which as of today shows how the services are responding in China and can be accessed at http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en
Google is not shutting down their operations completely in China and will have people working in R&D and sales in China and have made it clear that their decision to stop Google.cn and direct traffic to Google.hk is no way related to their employees in China and the decision is made in Google headquarters USA.
We at Senseapplied think that access to information is everybody’s fundamental right , and ban on right of access gives rise to alternate means of access , we in Pakistan had seen the blogspot ban by our government some years ago while many countries like Dubai in the Middle East does not allow their netizines access to Flickr and all , did all these government policy makers ever thought that will it stop people from accessing these sites ? with available tools as TorPark etc , it’s very simple although slow to circumvent all these restrictions . We hope Chinese government will realize this and will provide open for all access to all their netizines.
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