Google Toes Line in China: Tries to Stay Uncensored, Legal, and Available

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Google's presence in China is pretty small at the moment, since the company very loudly withdrew from the country amidst federal investigations into hacking that may or may not have originated somewhere in the Chinese government. So Google took down Google.cn, the company's Chinese site, as part of an anti-censorship protest, and instead have been redirecting searches to Google.hk, Google's Hong Kong site.

But now it appears even that is too much presence for the Chinese government to allow...