Net Views: Chinese Internet censorship hurts U.S. companies

Net Views — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:35:22 -0800

"Censorship gives an unfair market advantage to Chinese internet providers like Baidu, which doesn't need to present a superior product to lead the market - it needs simply to offer operational and editorial compliance with what the government wants, or what Baidu thinks it wants. Baidu, by the way, is the company that sold its censorship services for the equivalent of a $250,000 payment from Sanlu, a large milk producing company, to block search results related to the melamine contamination of milk products that sickened tens of thousands of Chinese children."

– Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg, Huffington Post, "Fair Trade Suffers When China Censors The Internet. It's Not Just A Human Rights Issue."

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