Google vs. Beijing

Since January 13, Google refuses to cooperate with Chinese censors. Result: the American search engine could be forced to leave China, failing to persuade the Beijing government to run its Chinese site google.cn without the filter of censorship. Google advanced including massive cyber cons of gmail accounts cyberdissidents. Today they are showing their outrage.

Last November, Ai Weiwei, a famous artist and dissident, had a nasty surprise by opening his mail. All messages have been transferred to an unknown address. Since he is campaigning for the rights of families of earthquake victims in Sichuan, the designer of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing is often harassed by the authorities. But mostly he keeps the action from Google, which has warned its users against piracy of their gmail box. “Of course this will affect my business. But most important is that Google has reminded surfers their rights, they must protect and defend freedom conveyed by this right to privacy on the Internet … ”

Today, some bloggers activists organize to fight against piracy. Like Zhou Shuguang, another star of the Chinese blogosphere. It provides training in Internet use and protection of personal data. “As I do not use the same password for all my accounts, either in Gmail or on social networks already do I prevent the government to hack my mailbox,” said blogger. I am also very careful not to use unsecured computers when I open my account. And especially, I change every two or three months my password on gmail … ”

In justifying its refusal to censorship by Chinese piracy gmail, Google has managed a nice shot … Everyone speaks as defender of a free Internet, unlike its rival Yahoo, accused of having allowed the arrest of cyber-dissidents.