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Recent Brawl between Google & China GovernmentGroup 5Tan Yi San
Wong Yu Li
Chetna Bhasin
Teo Ee Siang, Kenneth
Sreetama Bhattacharya
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Timeline
Jan 2006: Google
rolls out
Google.cn that
censors search
results
June 2009:
google.com, gmail
and other Googleservices became
inaccessible to
users in China
Oct 2009:
Chinese authors
accuse Google of
violating copyrights
Feb 2010: NYT reports
the hacking attacks on
Google traced to two
schools in China
Mar 2010:
Google puts a halt to
its China searchengine, redirecting
the site to its search
site based in HK
which is uncensored
Jan 2010: Google announces
it is no longer willing to
censor searches in China;may pull out of the country
June 2010:
Beijing threatens
to shut its
operation down by
the end of June
July 2010:
China renews
Google web
license, appearing
to accept a
compromise
Aug 2010:
Google Wenda
Q&A service
blocked in China.
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Jan 2006: Google rolls
out Google.cn, its
China-based search
page that censors
search results in
accordance withChinese rules
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June 2009:
Google.com, Gmail and
other Google online
services becameinaccessible to many
users in China. A
Chinese official accuses
Google of spreading
obscene content over
the Internet
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Oct 2009: A group of
Chinese authors accuses
Google of violating
copyrights with its
digital library, with
many threatening to sue
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Jan 2010: Google announces it is nolonger willing to censor searches in
China and may pull out of the
country. Hillary Clinton, the US
secretary of state, calls on Beijing to
carry out a thorough andtransparent investigation into the
cyberattacks said to be triggered by
Googles announcement to stop
censorship in China
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Feb 2010: The NYT
reports the hacking
attacks on Google had
been traced to two
schools in China. The
schools denyinvolvement
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Mar 2010: Google puts a
halt to its China search
engine, redirecting thesite to its search site
based in Hong Kong
which is uncensored
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June 2010: Beijing
threatens to shut its
operation down by the
end ofJune
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July 2010: China renews Google
web license to operate in China,appearing to accept a
compromise offered by the US
search engine over internet
censorship
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Aug 2010: Google
Wenda Q&A
service blocked in
China.
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What happened?
Google pulls out of China (1 min 28 secs)
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During 2008, Chinese authorities repeatedly
threatened Google to allow for internet
censorship.
Google did not budge. ..
In March 2010 Google puts a halt to its China
search engine, redirecting users to its HK site.
Beijings threatening and cyber attack
on Google continues
What happened?
July 2010: China renews Google web license. But, the problems are far from being over.
This is just the beginning of a global cyber warfare..This is just the beginning of a global cyber warfare..
In June 2009, Googles globalwebsite was blocked in China.
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What led to the event?
Internet Censorship: Chinese regulators
wanted to punish Google for failing to
remove pornographic content as well as
politically sensitive information after
repeated threatening.
Copyrights issue: Chinese authors andcopyrights groups demanded
compensation from Google for scanning
books by for their digital library.
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What went wrong?
Strategic incompatibility of a tech company likeGoogle and an authoritarian state like China
: Conflicting vision & strategy
Free & open Internet vs Censoring some results
: Chinese governments
desire to control
Chinese Communist Party
fears social instability and has
strong desire to keep tabs on
dissidents and limit freedomof expression
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Doing business in China is just not easy
Restrictions on sale of foreign movies, books, music and other media while
appealing a WTO ruling that these policies violate Chinas legally binding
commitments to the international free trade system
What went wrong?
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How could Google have
avoided the incident?
Respect the Chinese laws,
and continue its self-censorship as decided 5
years ago in 2005
Understand exactly what the Chinese
Government wants and be clear about the
rules on doing business in China i.e. political,
cultural and GuanXi
From a political perspective
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How could Google have
avoided the incident?From a technology and IT perspective
Would IT Governance have avoided the situation?
With the right amount
of governance in
place, rogue
applications and
activities may nothave been allowed to
infiltrate the
infrastructure
The tech crowd is
pointing to vulnerabilities
in Internet Explorer and
there is a solid argument
about the ability to use IEto hack into the gmail
accounts
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Question is.. Did Google want to avoid it?
Analyst estimates of Google's annual revenue inChina range from $300 million to $600 million, a
small portion of its $24 billion annual revenue.
Revenue foregone over 2010-15 from closing
Google.cn to be between $2-4bn
According to Enders Analysis, Google.cn takes about
20% of the money from paid search advertising in
China, which is lower than its market share
Five-year cost of dropping out of China
somewhere between 8.5% and 17% of revenue
earned in 2009 - Insignificant
pt 1. Censorship is against Googles philosophy of Dont be evil
pt 2. The founders of Google will never be removed from the board according to the chapter
Facts:
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Other interesting issues
Evidence of BiggestGlobal Power Shift??
Analysts say that Chinas willingness to stand up to Western
firms is a consequence of its meteoric economic rise The government doesnt need Westerners investment as much
as it once did, and it is increasingly bald-faced about its desire to
acquire their technology
The Google affair is both catalyst and evidence of change, said
Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economics firm
We are at a turning point. It had been very, very unusual for
foreign business to say anything too negative about China
because the opportunities here were too large.
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Other interesting issues
Blackberry a threat to National Security??
Increasingly global debate over censorship and digital privacy
Government censors in both Saudi Arabia and UAE routinelyblock access to websites and other media deemed to carry
content that runs contrary to the nations' conservative Islamicvalues or that could stoke political unrest
Authorities in Saudi Arabiaand the UAE say BlackBerrysoperate outside of existingregulations
Will affect 700,000 Blackberryusers
RIM has agreed to installservers in Saudi Arabia so that
messages sent can bemonitored
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