“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
The message, headlined “A New Approach to China” and signed by David Drummond, Senior vice president of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer.

Following photos show the reaction of Chinese people:

Respect paid to Google China with a flower and a note “Google is a real man”

A man shouts a Chinese slogan, “Google Niu Bi” which means “Google Awesome”

Google China wins the respect and a bow

Witnessed frequent flower deliveries to Google China with a slogan “Farewell for reunion”

“Thank you, Google!”

“Google, I will be right here waiting for you!”

Whether Google.cn will leave China or not, whether Google.com will be blocked by Chinese government or not, Google has won the respect of people.

“For all the truth that you made me see. For all the joy you brought to my life.“

I start to surf the internet and have my first homepage in 1999.
In 2004, my technical Blog became one of the top 100 Blogs in Chinese biggest tech zone.
However, I decide to stop updating that Blog and write my first English Blog –www.Peptop.com.

So here comes the question:
Why did I abandon my Blog in China and start to write this one?

The reason is hard to explain.
In fact, when the internet first appears in China, it is a bulwark of liberty, opening a website needn’t report to the government.
There was no censorship on the internet, no Green Dam, no Great Firewall.
You can write what you want to write and speak what you want to speak.
But now, the Big Brother is watching you!

From 2008, the Chinese government began to squeeze the internet.
Many people were caught solely because they wrote a Blog article or posted a thread in a forum.
If companies don’t censor Bloggers, the Big Brother will close their websites.
Fox example, Fanfou.com which is a “Chinese Twitter.com”, and Tecn.cn which is the most reasonable minds zone were both closed by the government.

Although I only want to write some tech articles and the little nothings of life, I still left Chinese Blogosphere to seek freedom.

Thank God, and also thank the internet.

“Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”, said Edmond Burke.
However, I want to say, among a liberty internet, corruptness cannot long exist.

One day, freedom and democracy will come to China.
There will be one day, I believe!