Lots of coverage of Google's surprising and welcome announcement that it is changing its approach to China and dropping censorship of search results in Google.cn: Google posting, Nart Villeneuve, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jonathan Zittrain and James Fallows are good places to start.
Google’s New Approach to China
January 13, 2010
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cautious. optimistic.
I am cautiously optimistic. I applaud Google on their transparency and hope it continues as they negotiate the process.
analyst ‘smells a rat’
Don’t take this at face value. There are two side to every coin.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/33831
Money has no smell
I don’t believe anything said in Google blog. There mus be some other motivation.