Chinese Blogger Criticizes Google

Chinese blogger Isaac Mao has written an open letter to Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s founders, asking the company to start working to actually save the internet in China:

Dear Larry and Sergey: I’m writing you the short letter on behalf of many Internet users in China to have some suggestions to resolve the current dilemma for Google in China, from both business and social perspectives.
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Many users here were disappointed when they found Google.cn filtered many keywords. The compromise remarks by you in Davos made us more frustrated. Seems you are adopting self-censorship which hurts those loyal users a lot which also devalue your motto of “non-evil”.

Google is ever regarded not only a leading Internet business, but a hope for many people around the world to open their thinking. Many bloggers in China still believes that in their everyday writings. We guess you were misled by incomplete information on how censorship is good to Chinese people. The fact is Google in the 130M-Internet-Users country is losing loyal users with loosing your principles. We understand its tough to anyone to make decisions. But it high time to change it back to the right track. Here we would like to propose 3 ideas to Google for its China strategy in a long term run, to survive, and live better.

Mao’s suggestions focus on increasing corporate investment in China, developing anti-censorship tools, and develop ad software to benefit Chinese users.

The point is clear: Google can be doing great good by spreading access to information inside of China and Tibet. This isn’t just what I’ve been saying, or organizations like EFF and Reporters Without Borders, but what internet users inside China are demanding. Google continues to break its “Don’t be evil” motto, and even recognizes that they’re hurting their companies interests. Yet they stick by Google.cn and continue to censor information for the Chinese Communist Party. This is simply unacceptable and their continued partnership with China is a black mark on their company’s reputation.