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Describe the case of Google in China.

What are the main reasons related


to legal issues that make Google fail in China?

The most popular internet search provider in the world, Google, started offering its services in
China in 2000. Because its services were first available in Chinese and were straightforward and
simple to use, Google was able to quickly garner a significant amount of popularity in China.
Google had emerged as the top search engine in China fairly rapidly, but after a few years, its
market share began to decline. This was due to the fact that Google searches frequently took an
abnormally long time to complete in China due to the government's extensive censorship of the
internet.
By 2005, the top search engine in China was Baidu. In order to effectively compete with this
firm, Google decided to build a new search engine in China using the domain name
www.google.cn while also agreeing to filter its content. Thus, it is clear that when Google
decided to establish its new website in China, it was compelled to practically self-censor its
contents. Given these facts, it is critical to evaluate the part played by the Chinese government
and the internet law that negatively impacted Google in China and ultimately contributed to its
collapse in the Chinese market.
In 2010, Google discontinued its Chinese search engine, cutting off access to a sizable market. In
China, there are more than twice as many Internet users as there are citizens there, and the
number of Chinese Internet users is expanding at a rate that is significantly greater than that of
any other nation. Google has plans to go back to China soon, but why did it stay away from the
nation for so long?
Censorship is the reason. After learning that it and several other organizations had been the
victim of a hack from within China, Google effectively shut down its activities there.
Additionally, Google discovered that other Chinese human rights activists' Gmail accounts had
been compromised while looking into the incident.
Four years before to the breach, Google opened an office in China and began providing a version
of its services that complied with the strict censorship laws of the country. At the time, Google
representatives claimed they had chosen to provide certain services to the massive Chinese
market, although with censorship restrictions, rather than deny millions of Internet users access
to information.
The decision Google made to stop operating in China is an extreme illustration of the types of
choices Internet businesses with international operations sometimes face: They must follow
regional laws, which may have speech limitations, if they wish to conduct business there.
Moreover, American businesses must adapt in order to conduct business, even in regions of the
world where the cultures are extremely similar to those of the U.S., due to the country's some of
the most lenient freedom-of-speech regulations.

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