5.01.2010

Battle for Internet Freedom

After a long dispute, Google is saying goodbye to the world's biggest Internet population: China. As Terry McCarthy reports, many U.S. firms are rethinking their online business with the communist nation.

Watch this video and answer the questions (answers in "comments").

1. What has Google decided to do?
2. Where have the 384 million users been moved?
3. Why did the Chinese government ban Google from operating inside the country?
4. When did the dispute begin? Why?
5. What was Beijing's reaction?
6. What does the blogger say?
7. What happened to sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube last year?
8. Why did Google decide it didn't have a choice?
9. What does James Lewis say?
10. What did Hillary Clinton demand?

1 comment:

eoilumi1 said...

1. To close its search engine in its largest market.
2. To Hong Kong
3. Because Google announced they'd stop censoring their search services.
4.In January, when Google said that hackers in China were spying on the e-mail accounts of human rights activists and they threatened to suspend the government order of censorship.
5. They insisted that censorship had to stay and accused Google of politiciting the issue.
6. He spends 16 hours a day working online as a journalist and he says without Google he can't live a modern life.
7. They were blocked.
8. Because Chinese cyber attacks against US networks were increasing rapidly.
9. He says that no company is safe against this kind of attack.
10. She demanded a full investigation by the Chinese authorities.