Google leaving China. And I applaud them for their decision. More American companies should do the same and come home.

China’s role in the internet market is greatly underestimated, it is little known that 338 million people are active online users. The powerhouse internet search engine Google created its China-based Google.cn website 4 years ago in 2006, following to the laws of censoring search results by banning sites to which access was blocked by government filters, popularly known as communism, as I like to say.

As of recent Google reports it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn. This would allow users to find political websites abroad. China, of course is having a fit with this decision. How horrible it must be to live in a closed box of information. A government that controls what is published and what you can and cannot read and analyze. I mean who would ever want the truth? Sorry, but that is a joke. Where do you get off telling what your citizens of your country can and cannot read or write in their own personal time.

-Aaron Lumberes

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