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Sergey Brin - why google left China

Google recently discovered a security attack on the google world. Upon further investigation they identified the target of the attacks: gmail accounts of human rights activists operation in China. Was this attack authorized by the Chinese government? Google made a statement of intent to no longer allow political censorship in China. If this would result in the end of google's Chinese services, so be it.

Sergey says if more companies would come forward taking similar steps and actually allow business to be sacrificed in order to protect what they think is right, the world may change a bit faster.

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