Google and China: The Tensions Climb

• June 2009: China finds some pornographic results in the Google.cn site and . (Those guys evidently never read about why porn is actually good for society.) The country blocks access to Google until the G-team wipes out every mention of the G-spot.

• September 2009: The guy who ran the Google China operation since its inception . Analysts speculate that his departure between Google and the People's Republic. Around the same time, satirists speculate that Apple to form its own repressive business strategies.

Google and China: Spiraling Out of Control

• January 12, 2010: Google announces that it will in China following an attack on its servers in the country. The attack, Google says, targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered ... have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China," Google explains . "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn. ... We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."