Google set to end China censorship

Published: 6:36AM Thursday March 11, 2010 Source: Reuters

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Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a US Congressional panel on Thursday.

Nicole Wong, the firm's vice president and deputy general counsel, told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that Google would stop censorship and "(if) the option is that we will shutter our .cn property and leave the country, we are prepared to do that."

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