谷歌重申不过滤搜索结果 做好停止中国业务准备

环球网消息，据新加坡《联合早报》11日报道，谷歌(Google)高层重申，作好停止在中国业务的准备，强调不会应中国要求过滤网站的搜寻结果。

　　报道说，谷歌副总裁黄安娜(Nicole Wong)10日表示，如果北京要求谷歌必须审查网络搜寻结果，或是选择退出全球人口最多的中国网络市场，谷歌准备撤离中国。

　　谷歌撤出中国事件成为外国媒体焦点已经有一段时日。全国政协十一届三次会议新闻发言人赵启正日前就此事件表示，中国互联网是开放的，中国继续为外商创造良好的投资环境，保护其合法利益。赵启正说，2005年谷歌来中国考察时，做得很仔细，特别对于法律环境做了逐字逐句的了解。2006年正式进入中国的时候，谷歌对这些法律都有郑重的承诺。中国的互联网是开放的，中国欢迎包括国际互联网企业在内的各国投资者在中国展开业务，也希望外国投资者尊重中国的公众利益、文化传统和中国法律，承担相应的社会责任。

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A top Google executive told US lawmakers Wednesday that the Internet giant is prepared to leaveChinaifBeijingsays it must censor Web searches or quit the world's most populous online market.

"Google is firm in its decision that it will stop censoring our search results for China," Google vice president anddeputy general counselNicole Wong told the USHouse of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.

"If the option is that we'll shutter our .cn operation and leave the country, we are prepared to do that," she said at a hearing on the relationship between Internet technology and aiding democratic activists around the world.

Google threatened in January to leave China over what it said were mid-December cyberattacks aimed at its source code and at theGmailaccounts ofChinese human rightsactivists around the world.

In the meantime, Google has continued to filter results on itsChinese search engine,Google.cn, and posted ads for dozens of positions in China, which has the world's largest number of online users at 384 million.

Wong said the company was mindful that it has "hundreds of employees on the ground" and understands "the seriousness or the sensitivity" of its decision but "we will stop censoring" search results in China.

"We are not going to change our decision on not censoring results anymore," she said.

Wong said China is on "a trajectory of increasingpolitical censorship" in every medium, including the Internet, but would not say that the late 2009 cyberattacks were tied in any way to the government in Beijing.

But Larry Wortzel, a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission tasked with annual reports on thenational security implicationsof the bilateral economic relationship, declared "it was theChinese government."

Wortzel said he had "very little doubt" that Beijing was behind the attacks, and stressed that he was not a lawyer bound by formal court procedures but a former intelligence analyst drawing his own conclusions.

Lawmakers took turns sharply criticizing China andIranat the hearing for efforts to censor Internet communications and crack down on democratic activists -- but Google and rival Microsoft also drew a few barbs.

Republican Representative Chris Smithpointed to a Forbes magazine report quotingMicrosoft chief executive Steve Ballmeras saying Google was acting irrationally and vowing to censor search results if instructed to do so.

"If the Chinese government gives us proper legal notice, we'll take that piece of information out of theBing search engine," the magazine quoted Ballmer as telling oil company executives in Texas in January.

"Frankly, I find that outrageous," said Smith, who called "unconscionable" Ballmer's reported description of the US commitment tofreedom of speechas "extreme."

"We are frankly very puzzled by the comments," said Wong, adding the remarks were "not consistent" with Microsoft's position as part of the industry's Global Network Initiative push for human rights worldwide.

"Certainly we would never minimize thehuman rights impactof censorship in China or any other country," said Wong.

Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacherwelcomed Google's commitment to stop censorsing search results in China but underlined: "Unfortunately, Google has yet to follow through on and to stop self-censoring."

"Our praise shouldn't be for an intent, our praise should be for accomplishing what has been set out," he said.