Google away and the Great Wall

Jun Ren received a letter last night and asked how I would like Google to do. I do not really know Google really motivated to leave Beijing, in the end because of information control to resist the policy of economic reasons or because they retreat to Hong Kong to go? Different opinions.I do not know who the good letter. Google's stance is high, Google's attitude is also very political. Google CEO said that the Chinese authorities to the growing requirements of information filtering let him think of his childhood living under the Soviet totalitarian regime can not tolerate. When he left the Soviet Union was six years old. Year-old children experience of totalitarianism gave him a deep impression. This argument makes me a little bit surprised, because I always thought that businessmen are mercenary. But now that the only meaning of a non-profit-oriented businesses on a map, I do not really easy to fully believe, though I have no evidence that Google is not because of resistance from China's information control. 
  
Because I live in the country, after the departure of the natural Google inconvenience caused no personal experience. But I do from the "New Yorker" journalist's blog on Beijing to see him you can still use Google, but a special software. This is his record: http://ow.ly/DRZc. He is a foreigner, and the money can afford the software, for most people, I can not imagine Google's search information to people who like the inconvenience. China now is only a search engine Baidu has? No words against Google with Baidu, Baidu may be complacent or blocked more fiercely. 
  
I think that Google is a lose-lose leave Beijing, while Google has won the reputation of justice.Google injured because of economic losses. China also hurt, because losing a provider of the fastest and most complete information search engine, those who need the information to the Chinese merchants, manufacturers, people inconvenience; also betrayed the determined cry down or tear down the Great Wall of Meng Jiang men and women. Frankly, I secretly think that this mode of Google go a little bit of swagger and less chess properly. 
  
First of all I am worried that Google overestimated its own democratization process in China's role. Commercial use of political pressure on China in the West, many people suggested a method. Well-known scholar Andrew Nathan, Chinese hate him to let him into the Chinese state, wrote many articles on the United States asked the U.S. government put pressure on businessmen to American businessmen on the Chinese government to pressure the Chinese government to improve human rights. He believes this is the moral obligation of every business, but also the moral obligation of the United States Government. I heard the news from Google, think of the recommendations of Professor Nathan, Google actually really surprised to implement this recommendation. Google Does China want to change the color or to Beijing to see the point? A search engine, even the world's largest search engine company is a really big political ambitions? 
  
The problem is not Google China is not the Internet will find it very convenient. I guess most of the people (said to have 300 million people online in China) on the political enthusiasm is not so high, Baidu may also enough they used. Those who wish to search for sensitive words people must be able to learn over the wall and find the words for more information. From this perspective, Google is not actively moving confrontation with the totalitarian, but the soldiers had run away or take the initiative to give up. Google, my friend, who should have the courage of Professor Cui Weiping: "We do not give up", this is the real help China toward the direction of democratization. Out of Beijing, I am worried about is the original Google staff who lose their jobs, how to do? Moreover, people generally search for sensitive words every day, then Who?China's political and economic environment, who are interested in doing this every day? Unless the little person. 
  
My last semester to make students read an excellent article entitled: China Network on 10 things you need to know. Speaking of which one is to use the Internet in China were mostly not political, but commercial, social, cultural, such as people around the world almost. Taking into account the interests of the majority, Google a few people out there care to lose the vast majority. In addition, Google's rival is a state power, this country has to believe from the history of Shang Zhi Xia Yu. This is not only the policy of the DPRK, which is two thousand years since the national policy. Challenge to this policy is to challenge the political traditions of Chinese culture, Google is very courageous, but it seems not enough wisdom to make wise Trojan horse, dive to the inside, not to retreat to the Great Wall outside to go. 
  
In fact, this seems to never really driving down the Great Wall and the collapse of force it is kept outside the city and the Chinese people, not Google. The role of the Internet in China, in particular, public oversight and public opinion, has changed in China, Do not you see trichloro milk powder incident in 2008 and the Sichuan earthquake? Last year, many public events, and now Shanxi vaccine events? The voice of the Internet has changed the final outcome of these events. There is no online voice is inconceivable. Some different views now online, although the review of all the time, but one foot, the law is strong, I do not believe the review can filter who want to know no way to know. There is a will, there is a way. Google should be left to help the Chinese people, the country with the lock, closed the country, the struggle against totalitarianism. This struggle can not be achieved, can only fight a protracted war and guerrilla warfare. Google at the moment to leave, in fact, the spirit of those trying to find different resources, different opinions issued by the voice of people, groups not timely help, but a bit drastic means. This is very regrettable. I look forward to moving back to Google.