Google May Leave Fast-Growing China

China has become the world's top exporter and it is the world's largest Internet market, but Google says it may leave. Google is estimated to have around a thirty percent share of the search market in China, and it is only about half the share of the Chinese search engine Baidu. In addition to that, there are censorship laws in China and the government tries to limit access to many sites. According to the article, Fariborz Ghadar says "Google has to make a decision whether they want to basically deviate from their vision mission statement that they 'do no harm' and stay in China. Or whether they have just had enough and they don't like the restrictions, and they don't like the cyber attacks, and they're going to move out so as to preserve their name and brand."

Personally, I feel that censorship laws are not effective because China has become the world's top exporter and most Chinese people can access on the Internet without censorship laws in foreign countries. Google should stay in China, the world's largest Internet market, and persuade the government.

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