google vs china v3

8/8/2019 Google vs China v3

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Recent Brawl between Google & China GovernmentGroup 5Tan Yi San

Wong Yu Li

Chetna Bhasin

Teo Ee Siang, Kenneth

Sreetama Bhattacharya


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Timeline

Jan 2006: Google

rolls out

Google.cn that

censors search

results

June 2009:

google.com, gmail

and other Googleservices became

inaccessible to

users in China

Oct 2009:

Chinese authors

accuse Google of

violating copyrights

Feb 2010: NYT reports

the hacking attacks on

Google traced to two

schools in China

Mar 2010:

Google puts a halt to

its China searchengine, redirecting

the site to its search

site based in HK

which is uncensored

Jan 2010: Google announces

it is no longer willing to

censor searches in China;may pull out of the country

June 2010:

Beijing threatens

to shut its

operation down by

the end of June

July 2010:

China renews

Google web

license, appearing

to accept a

compromise

Aug 2010:

Google Wenda

Q&A service

blocked in China.


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Jan 2006: Google rolls

out Google.cn, its

China-based search

page that censors

search results in

accordance withChinese rules


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June 2009:

Google.com, Gmail and

other Google online

services becameinaccessible to many

users in China. A

Chinese official accuses

Google of spreading

obscene content over

the Internet


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Oct 2009: A group of

Chinese authors accuses

Google of violating

copyrights with its

digital library, with

many threatening to sue


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Jan 2010: Google announces it is nolonger willing to censor searches in

China and may pull out of the

country. Hillary Clinton, the US

secretary of state, calls on Beijing to

carry out a thorough andtransparent investigation into the

cyberattacks said to be triggered by

Googles announcement to stop

censorship in China


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Feb 2010: The NYT

reports the hacking

attacks on Google had

been traced to two

schools in China. The

schools denyinvolvement


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Mar 2010: Google puts a

halt to its China search

engine, redirecting thesite to its search site

based in Hong Kong

which is uncensored


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June 2010: Beijing

threatens to shut its

operation down by the

end ofJune


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July 2010: China renews Google

web license to operate in China,appearing to accept a

compromise offered by the US

search engine over internet

censorship


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Aug 2010: Google

Wenda Q&A

service blocked in

China.


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What happened?

Google pulls out of China (1 min 28 secs)


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During 2008, Chinese authorities repeatedly

threatened Google to allow for internet

censorship.

Google did not budge. ..

In March 2010 Google puts a halt to its China

search engine, redirecting users to its HK site.

Beijings threatening and cyber attack

on Google continues

What happened?

July 2010: China renews Google web license. But, the problems are far from being over.

This is just the beginning of a global cyber warfare..This is just the beginning of a global cyber warfare..

In June 2009, Googles globalwebsite was blocked in China.


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What led to the event?

Internet Censorship: Chinese regulators

wanted to punish Google for failing to

remove pornographic content as well as

politically sensitive information after

repeated threatening.

Copyrights issue: Chinese authors andcopyrights groups demanded

compensation from Google for scanning

books by for their digital library.


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What went wrong?

Strategic incompatibility of a tech company likeGoogle and an authoritarian state like China

: Conflicting vision & strategy

Free & open Internet vs Censoring some results

: Chinese governments

desire to control

Chinese Communist Party

fears social instability and has

strong desire to keep tabs on

dissidents and limit freedomof expression


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Doing business in China is just not easy

Restrictions on sale of foreign movies, books, music and other media while

appealing a WTO ruling that these policies violate Chinas legally binding

commitments to the international free trade system

What went wrong?


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How could Google have

avoided the incident?

Respect the Chinese laws,

and continue its self-censorship as decided 5

years ago in 2005

Understand exactly what the Chinese

Government wants and be clear about the

rules on doing business in China i.e. political,

cultural and GuanXi

From a political perspective


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How could Google have

avoided the incident?From a technology and IT perspective

Would IT Governance have avoided the situation?

With the right amount

of governance in

place, rogue

applications and

activities may nothave been allowed to

infiltrate the

infrastructure

The tech crowd is

pointing to vulnerabilities

in Internet Explorer and

there is a solid argument

about the ability to use IEto hack into the gmail

accounts


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Question is.. Did Google want to avoid it?

Analyst estimates of Google's annual revenue inChina range from $300 million to $600 million, a

small portion of its $24 billion annual revenue.

Revenue foregone over 2010-15 from closing

Google.cn to be between $2-4bn

According to Enders Analysis, Google.cn takes about

20% of the money from paid search advertising in

China, which is lower than its market share

Five-year cost of dropping out of China

somewhere between 8.5% and 17% of revenue

earned in 2009 - Insignificant

pt 1. Censorship is against Googles philosophy of Dont be evil

pt 2. The founders of Google will never be removed from the board according to the chapter

Facts:


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Other interesting issues

Evidence of BiggestGlobal Power Shift??

Analysts say that Chinas willingness to stand up to Western

firms is a consequence of its meteoric economic rise The government doesnt need Westerners investment as much

as it once did, and it is increasingly bald-faced about its desire to

acquire their technology

The Google affair is both catalyst and evidence of change, said

Arthur Kroeber, managing director of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economics firm

We are at a turning point. It had been very, very unusual for

foreign business to say anything too negative about China

because the opportunities here were too large.


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Other interesting issues

Blackberry a threat to National Security??

Increasingly global debate over censorship and digital privacy

Government censors in both Saudi Arabia and UAE routinelyblock access to websites and other media deemed to carry

content that runs contrary to the nations' conservative Islamicvalues or that could stoke political unrest

Authorities in Saudi Arabiaand the UAE say BlackBerrysoperate outside of existingregulations

Will affect 700,000 Blackberryusers

RIM has agreed to installservers in Saudi Arabia so that

messages sent can bemonitored


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