Google closes Chinese search engine:

Google closes Chinese search engine:
On Monday, just over two months since Google announced it would stop censoring search results in China, the company made history by replacing Google.cn with Google.hk.com. By redirecting Internet users in mainland China (and Tibet) to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong, Google has taken an important stand on the side of rights and freedom for all people.

This is a landmark victory for freedom. It also exposes the Chinese government as an insecure, authoritarian dictatorship afraid to allow its own citizens to access information freely and draw their own conclusions about the world.

As Xiao Qiang, Director of China Digital Times said it best: "The fact that Google cannot exist in China, clearly indicates that China's path as a rising power is going in a direction different from what the world expected and what many Chinese were hoping for."

This important development is a big step forward in fighting China's criminalization of information sharing. This is critical for Tibetans who continue to be jailed for sending information abroad.