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Censored technology companies in China is a concept that talks about how Chinese government censor the Chinese technology companies and restrict the content they publish on their platforms. Chinese government . Typically, censorship is defined as the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security.<ref name=dictionary> Oxford Dictionary [en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship " Definition of Censorship in English by Oxford Dictionaries"], Retrieved on 15 April 2021</ref> As the rapid development of Internet technology, Chinese government has started to censor more massively and aggressively. The type of censorship varies from companies to companies but they are all done in order to prohibiting Chinese citizens from knowing and spreading information including but not limited to controversial events, reactionary speech, government actions, and violent and pornographic contents. For those companies that do not enter Chinese market or reject the censorship from Chinese government, they were blocked from Chinese Internet. The most notable blocking mechanism is known as “the Great Firewall”, with its name inspired by the historical architecture “the Great Wall”. In recent years, Chinese government is not satisfied with government censorship but requires individual technology companies to establish self-censorship mechanisms. <ref> Information Control and Self-Censorship in the PRC and the Spread of SARS [https://www.cecc.gov/publications/issue-papers/information-control-and-self-censorship-in-the-prc-and-the-spread-of-sars] </ref>
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Censored technology companies in China is a concept that talks about how Chinese government censor the Chinese technology companies and restrict the content they publish on their platforms. Chinese government . Typically, censorship is defined as the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security.<ref name=dictionary> Oxford Dictionary [en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship " Definition of Censorship in English by Oxford Dictionaries"], Retrieved on 15 April 2021 </ref> As the rapid development of Internet technology, Chinese government has started to censor more massively and aggressively. The type of censorship varies from companies to companies but they are all done in order to prohibiting Chinese citizens from knowing and spreading information including but not limited to controversial events, reactionary speech, government actions, and violent and pornographic contents. For those companies that do not enter Chinese market or reject the censorship from Chinese government, they were blocked from Chinese Internet. The most notable blocking mechanism is known as “the Great Firewall”, with its name inspired by the historical architecture “the Great Wall”. In recent years, Chinese government is not satisfied with government censorship but requires individual technology companies to establish self-censorship mechanisms. <ref> Information Control and Self-Censorship in the PRC and the Spread of SARS [https://www.cecc.gov/publications/issue-papers/information-control-and-self-censorship-in-the-prc-and-the-spread-of-sars] </ref>
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==Response of Censored tech companies==
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===Google:exit===
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In the face of China's strict Internet regulations, Google adopted a strong attitude of resistance, and finally exit Chinese market to resist the censorship from the Chinese government.
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On January 12, 2010, Google made a statement titled 'A new approach to China' on its official blog, stating that the company will consider canceling content censorship on Google.cn. <ref> Google. [https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html "A new approach to China"] 13 January 2010. Retrived from 15 April 2021 <\ref>Google claimed that its Gmail service was hacked by a "well-planned and targeted" attack from China in mid-December 2009, which resulted in the theft of intellectual property. The hackers focused on the e-mails of Chinese human rights activists(维权人士Gmail纷遭入侵[永久失效链接],明报,2010年1月15日). Mercury News reported that, although Google did not specify that the Chinese mainland government was responsible for the attack on the account, according to a person close to Google, Google engineers did trace the hackers to the Chinese government or its agents.( Google cyberattack from China reverberates around the world. Mercury News. 2010-01-13 [2010-01-14]. (原始内容存档于2012-01-13) (英语).)
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On March 23 of the same year, Google China announced that it decided to withdraw from the Chinese market due to "being attacked by Chinese hackers" and "network censorship". (关于谷歌中国的最新声明. Google官方网站. 2010-03-23 [2010-02-23]. (原始内容存档于2010-03-29))Google has redirected its search services from two existing Google China domains (google.cn and g.cn) to Google Hong Kong (google.com.hk). Its servers in Hong Kong offer a search engine that has not been censored by mainland China.( https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/谷歌退出中国大陆事件#cite_note-28,注:是个wiki词条)

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Censored technology companies in China is a concept that talks about how Chinese government censor the Chinese technology companies and restrict the content they publish on their platforms. Chinese government . Typically, censorship is defined as the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security.[1] As the rapid development of Internet technology, Chinese government has started to censor more massively and aggressively. The type of censorship varies from companies to companies but they are all done in order to prohibiting Chinese citizens from knowing and spreading information including but not limited to controversial events, reactionary speech, government actions, and violent and pornographic contents. For those companies that do not enter Chinese market or reject the censorship from Chinese government, they were blocked from Chinese Internet. The most notable blocking mechanism is known as “the Great Firewall”, with its name inspired by the historical architecture “the Great Wall”. In recent years, Chinese government is not satisfied with government censorship but requires individual technology companies to establish self-censorship mechanisms. [2]

Response of Censored tech companies

Google:exit

In the face of China's strict Internet regulations, Google adopted a strong attitude of resistance, and finally exit Chinese market to resist the censorship from the Chinese government.

On January 12, 2010, Google made a statement titled 'A new approach to China' on its official blog, stating that the company will consider canceling content censorship on Google.cn. [3]
  1. Oxford Dictionary [en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship " Definition of Censorship in English by Oxford Dictionaries"], Retrieved on 15 April 2021
  2. Information Control and Self-Censorship in the PRC and the Spread of SARS [1]
  3. Google. "A new approach to China" 13 January 2010. Retrived from 15 April 2021 <\ref>Google claimed that its Gmail service was hacked by a "well-planned and targeted" attack from China in mid-December 2009, which resulted in the theft of intellectual property. The hackers focused on the e-mails of Chinese human rights activists(维权人士Gmail纷遭入侵[永久失效链接],明报,2010年1月15日). Mercury News reported that, although Google did not specify that the Chinese mainland government was responsible for the attack on the account, according to a person close to Google, Google engineers did trace the hackers to the Chinese government or its agents.( Google cyberattack from China reverberates around the world. Mercury News. 2010-01-13 [2010-01-14]. (原始内容存档于2012-01-13) (英语).) On March 23 of the same year, Google China announced that it decided to withdraw from the Chinese market due to "being attacked by Chinese hackers" and "network censorship". (关于谷歌中国的最新声明. Google官方网站. 2010-03-23 [2010-02-23]. (原始内容存档于2010-03-29))Google has redirected its search services from two existing Google China domains (google.cn and g.cn) to Google Hong Kong (google.com.hk). Its servers in Hong Kong offer a search engine that has not been censored by mainland China.( https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/谷歌退出中国大陆事件#cite_note-28,注:是个wiki词条)