Google digs heels in over censorship in China

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    1 February 2010

    Google's standoff in China grew even more pronounced last week after chief executive Eric Schmidt restated the web giant's opposition to internet censorship, according to a Bloomberg report.

    Schmidt said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday that, although the web giant is still complying with Chinese law in censoring search results on Google.cn, in a "reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes there".

    "We love what China is doing as a country and its growth," Schmidt is reported as saying. "We just don't like the censorship. We hope to apply some negotiation or pressure to make things better for the Chinese people."