THURSDAY JANUARY 14
5:21 PM ET: China has 'dismissed' Google's threat to leave the country.
The Financial Times reports:
One of China's top propaganda officials on Thursday reaffirmed the state's commitment to censoring the internet, showing no sign of compromising in the face of Google's threat to quit the country.
Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office and deputy head of the Communist party's propaganda department, said internet media "must live up to their responsibility of maintaining internet security".
4:14 PM ET: The White House has officially endorsed Google's position.
MarketWatch cites White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs:
"We support [Google's] action ... in a decision to no longer censor searches that happen using the [Google] platform," Gibbs told reporters. He added that "our concern is with actions that threaten the universal rights of a free Internet."
According to MarketWatch, President Barack Obama "supports Google Inc.'s decision to stop voluntarily censoring its search results in China, even though the move could imperil the company's ability to do business in a prized international market."
3:50 PM ET: Get a visual summary of the what China censors and blocks online.
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David McCandless, via Fast Company, has created an infographic illustrating what material and sites are censored by the Chinese government. See it below:
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