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Date: January 17, 2010
发布日：2010年1月17日
Topic:
Google, China in Tense Standoff (ABC World News)
标题：谷歌与中共在紧张的对峙中(美国广播公司世界新闻)
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Google,
China in Tense Standoff
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Internet Giant Undecided Whether to Pull Out, But Says No More Censorship
By
JEREMY HUBBARD and SUZANNE YEO of ABC news
Jan.
17, 2010
When
Google announced earlier this week that it was the victim of a series of cyber
attacks it said originated in China, and that Gmail accounts of human rights
activists had been hacked, it might have been the last straw for the company
whose informal motto is "Don't Be Evil."
"Google
probably thought that they were really good at defending their own networks and
it turns out that while they were good, they weren't as good as the Chinese
army," said James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
"Google
probably thought they had a deal with the Chinese, so they were a little bit surprised,"
Lewis said.
Now
Google says it will hold talks with Chinese officials in the coming weeks
before making a decision to pull out altogether.
But
the Internet giant says it has already decided to end the controversial
practice of censoring its own Web site in China, a condition required by the
central government for doing business in the mainland.
"In
the last year or two, the environment has gotten more closed, not more open and
so given all of this, we can just no longer in good conscience continue to
filter, or to censor our search engine in China," Google chief legal
officer David Drummond said.
The
recent security breaches have further soured a relationship that was uneasy
from its start four years ago. Google was always uneasy about agreeing to
restrict access to sensitive subjects such as the Tiananmen Square massacre,
Tibetan independence, and the Falun Gong.
While
critics accused Google of enabling the repression of free speech in the name of
profit, Google said that it hoped that its presence in China might eventually
lead to a more open Internet.
"We've
seen a number of things that reflect a desire to, on the part of the Chinese
authorities, to actually regulate the Internet more and not less, and a more
open environment was what we were hoping for and was hoping that we could sort
of encourage by being there. But that has just not happened," Drummond
said.
Representative
Chris Smith, R-N.J., says that Google ignored the warning signs.
"It
was right in front of them how they were being used, maybe willingly, by the
Chinese dictatorship and they said, 'oh no, no, no.' They thought they were
going to be opening up China and I said, 'Then you don't understand
dictatorships,'" Smith said. In February 2006, Smith chaired a congressional
hearing in which the executives of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco were
accused of collaborating with a totalitarian regime for agreeing to terms such
as censorship in order to do business in China.
Smith
is now sponsoring a bill called the Global Online Freedom Act that would
require American Internet companies to disclose what topics they are censoring
and would make personally identifiable information even harder for cyberspies
to obtain.
He
said he thinks Google's stance could have significant impact.
"Google's
announcement, I think, was a game-changer. I hope it turns out to be what I
expect it to be -- a clear-cut statement we will no longer be complicit and be
a partner to the censorship of the Chinese people when it comes to political
and religious type of thought," Smith said.
While
Google has not made a final decision on whether to leave China, human rights
activists warn that the company should expect more of the same if it remains.
"The
Chinese authorities would keep making Google make compromises until it became a
tool for their own propaganda, because the Chinese Communist regime would not
allow the real, true, free information flow and that's why Google will not be
able to survive in China if they want to maintain a true free information source
for the Chinese people," exiled Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng said.
"So you can imagine if Google stays in China, then this fight will be
long-term."
Even
executives at Google, once so optimistic about their venture in China, now
sound disillusioned.
"A
more open environment was what we were hoping for and was hoping that we could
sort of encourage by being there, but that has just not happened,"
Drummond said. "We always said we're a different kind of a company, that
we've got values that we're willing to maintain even at the expense of leaving
some money on the table."
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link:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/google-quit-china-hacking-censorship/story?id=9589615&page=1
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A522-W300
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A522-W300
Release
Date: January 17, 2010
发布日：2010年1月17日
Topic:
Google, China in Tense Standoff (ABC World News)
标题：谷歌与中共在紧张的对峙中(美国广播公司世界新闻)
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2010年1月16日，美国广播公司世界新闻（ABC
World News）电视台就谷歌事件在晚间的黄金时间播出对魏京生及美国国会议员克里斯﹒史密斯的电视采访。以下为采访的文字版。
谷歌与中共在紧张的对峙中
-- 互联网巨人还未决定是否撤离，但对审查说不
美国广播公司世界新闻（ABC World News）
JEREMY
HUBBARD, SUZANNE YEO 报道
2010年1月17日
这星期早些时候，谷歌就它是来自中国的一系列网络攻击的受害者以及人权活跃者的Gmail帐户被袭击后的公告，也许就是这个以“不作恶”为其非正式的座右铭的公司的最后一根稻草。
“谷歌可能以为他们能非常好地保卫自己的网络。但尽管他们很好，他们却不如中国的军队。”战略和国际研究中心的高级研究员James Lewis说。“也许谷歌以为他们和中共讲好了，所以他们吃惊。”
现在，谷歌说在下几周内会和中共官方谈判，然后再做出是否从中国全面撤出的决定。但这个互联网的巨人说它决定结束那个颇具争议的在它中国的网站的审查。“在过去的一两年中，环境变得更紧闭，因此我们的好良心就不能容许继续过滤或审查我们在中国的搜索引擎。”谷歌的首席法务官David Drummond说。
最近的安全豁口使得谷歌在四年前开始的这个本就不容易的关系更加恶化。谷歌对同意对“天安门屠杀”、“西藏独立”、及“法轮功”这类敏感词进行过滤一直感到不易。有批评者声称谷歌为了商业利益而对言论自由予以打压，但谷歌则声称它一直希望它在中国的存在也许最终能带来一个更开放的互联网。Drummond说：“我们从中共权威那里看到了一系列对互联网更多管制的意向，而我们是希望我们在那里的存在能带来一个更加开放的环境。但这并没有发生。”
新泽西的美国国会议员克里斯﹒史密斯（Chris Smith）说谷歌过去忽略了警告的信号。“正是在他们的面前，我谈到他们（也许是心甘情愿地）被中国的专制者利用了。但他们说：”没有“。他们以为他们去打开中国，而我却说：”那你就是不懂专制。“史密斯说，在2006年2月，他主持了一个国会听证会，在那个会上，来自谷歌、雅虎、微软、和思科的公司执行官们被指控为了在中国的生意，而与一个专制政权合作，如答应做审查这样的事等。
史密斯目前提出了一个“全球网络自由法案”，要求美国的互联网公司揭示它们审查的内容，并保护可以判断的个人信息而不让网上的特工获取。他说谷歌目前的立场具有重大影响。“我认为，谷歌的公告带来转机。我希望结果是我所希望的那样：一个很简明的公告来声明，在政治和宗教思想方面，我们不再与中共一起审查中国人民。”
虽说谷歌还没有就是否离开中国的问题作出最后决定，但人权活跃者们警告说如果谷歌还呆在中国，情况还会是差不多。
流亡的中国持异议者魏京生说“中共权威会不断地让谷歌作让步，直到它成为中共自己的宣传工具。这是因为中共当局不会容许真正的、真实的自由信息的流通。所以说，如果谷歌真的为了中国人民而想保持一个真正的、自由的信息来源，它就无法在中共之下生存。”他又说：“你可以想象，如果谷歌留在了中国，那这场战争将是长期的。”
现在，曾对他们在中国的产业乐观的谷歌执行官们听起来也很有疑心。“我们曾希望有一个更开放的环境，并希望我们在那里的存在是对开放的鼓励。但这并没有发生。”Drummond说。“我们一直说我们是另外的一种公司，我们甚至愿意掏出钱来保持我们的价值观。”
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