Google has received a lot or criticism in the past for its accommodation of the Chinese authorities in terms of the Chinese version of its search portal, Google. It has basically ensured that certain searches are made, such as “Dalai Lama” no found results are returned. Now, as a result of what they call elaborate attempts to hack their data, and one’s guess is that they are trying to say there may be some Chinese government influence behind this, they are abandoning this policy that has caused a lot of trouble for them in America particularly with the freedom of speech advocates and will no longer censor the search results in China. I think from a democratic point of view that is a great decision or how it affects their business, not that they are doing that well in China in the first place at the moment, but it is a growing market, remains to be seen. There is every possibility that the Chinese government will close Google down in China by effectively banning the blocking of the website.