Im not sure I understand Googles standards. It retracts is service out of the Chinese market because of allegations of Government backed hacking into the GMAIL accounts of political activists etc yet fights to stay in the Iranian market which switches Google on and off at will...see here: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22434601-5005962,00.html On occasions the Iranian government has banned the use of the search engine and the GMAIL service. The reason is obvious as it wants to filter results in order to keep sexual or political information away from its users. The thing that gets me is when Iran bans Google, Google then puts pressure on the Government to re-instate the service which takes approx 24 hours to be made available again. Reports of hacking by the government of Iran are not uncommon in Iran..please see http://techgeist.net/2009/08/iran-hacking-citizens-email-accounts/. My question.....why does Google fight to stay in the Iranian market yet pull out at the drop of a hat from the worlds biggest market China? Just for reference...I am against denying the Chinese AND Iranian people the right to use Google.
google has not ceased or stopped operation in China.. they just uncensored some of the content in defiance of Chinese laws... that is in reaction to google's allegation that google's operation being hacked... but my bet is that this will become a non-event.. there will be some compromise from both sides... in a matter a weeks. google has not taken action in Iran is because there are not as many internet users in Iran .. so one way or the other ..
there might be a reason...............that baidu is also there and may force the chinese govt to force the google...........and its services to quit from china...........................may be you thing i am wrong but its my idea about your thread