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Even their own rules, which was a dramatic message, if Google said, in January 2010 that the People’s Republic of China not only cut its server and attacked in the e-mail accounts by Chinese dissidents, but the data are stolen from various multinational companies. Google has responded immediately and some would say, in bold: He threatened to leave China unless the country’s careful control of the Internet come to an end. So begins the story of how a private company ventured into one of the biggest challenges in recent decades against the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese regulatory environment of the dot-com is to say the least, rather than hostile. While there are many foreign investors complain about China, the dot-com prices that are significantly worse than in other sectors. Internet censorship in China is perhaps the most widely used and effective in the world. Literally controls all Internet traffic (including chat and SMS) and country. The Big Brother type of system is compatible with the use of the government of hundreds of thousands of specialists in the security police in the so-called Great Firewall of China. To realize very few people outside of China, as diverse as the Internet is there. The vast majority of the popular Web are blocked. Web sites for Chinese users are not only well-known brands such as Flickr, YouTube, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, but also a lot of 18,000 non-Chinese media, social media, video streaming portals and blogs. However, if not the content, not the vacuum created by this censoring is not long, because the local Chinese imitators flexibly to the needs of more censorship, fill the places of banned sites left.

The government makes it clear for those who are admitted and are prepared in China, which are strong in, what they can do limited work. It ‘clear that a violation of government directives to bring anyone in danger, which closed without warning. In these circumstances it is not surprising that not too long ago for the production of a Google search of the Falun Gong or the Dalai Lama any results. Another consequence of this system is that the nearly 70 million Chinese blogs, none of whom live abroad or in English, because it is careful not to read past the censors. All this seems pretty set in stone and could not believe that the government could be forced to relax its control on the World Wide Web But after the attacks on its computer servers, Google had enough, and stops unexpectedly found to have Goliath.  WTO accession, China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 was the culmination of the country’s transition to capitalism. His goal was to use the membership to this multilateral organization as a means to improve their access to foreign markets and, by extension, fueling its remarkable rate of economic growth. This strategy seems to overlook all the consequences involved in China in the WTO. As it turned out, was in China (and in many other countries with it) unknowingly agreed with unlimited access to the Internet services market. The fact that censorship restricts freedom of expression is something that the WTO has very little. What is more problematic for China, however, is that their current model of Internet censorship effectively discriminates against foreign companies for national companies to be reliable in the eyes of Beijing.

Now that Beijing has, in violation of WTO rules has proved to be very expensive. For example, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (the organization of judicial mediation) is already too complicated, the rules, played by China and the state monopoly for the importation of books and DVDs for similar reasons. The fact that China’s leaders justified their actions by noting that Google has violated the law several agreements with China and the Chinese authorities do not add much, the legal battle that could follow. Although the Chinese authorities are right, ordinances China still subject to the rules of international trade agreements established. As a result of these provisions limiting the powers of the Chinese authorities in the country, which is clearly something that seems to have neglected the Chinese negotiators.  God and the Internet
China is by no means the only country in the use of censorship. Although countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, North Korea and Turkmenistan are not yet members of WTO (and thus are of the law), there are many WTO members to censor websites of moral reasons, religious or policies. Many Muslim countries have blocked Web sites contain profanity and indecent content, for example. However, this is not unique in the Muslim world, including the United States imposed a legal prohibition (but not technically complete block) on-line gambling. Attacks against political figures or treason, are also sensitive to YouTube declined to defame Turkey, Kemal AtatuÌrk, closed the country’s founding father. In fact, the WTO is indifferent to blame, but also as regards the recognition of the right of each member going their own standards. Do not bore you with too much punishment. Even if it means sent to labor camps to check your e-mail as you could be in Cuba just to meet their obligations to open its markets to make its members to ensure use alternative less restrictive business, a stated goal . For example, an isolated village YouTube videos or close the entire site blasphemous? It ‘clear discrimination against foreign companies? Although there is no international law protecting freedom of expression, but there are legally binding rules that protect the right to export.

With regard to the WTO obligations of some countries show that many important Muslims (such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Malaysia) has granted free access to their markets, like China. Oman, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Malaysia have granted relatively free access to telecommunications services, including access to broadband and mobile and inexpensive VoIP services like Skype. In addition, Oman and Jordan agreed to unlimited access to audiovisual services. This means that YouTube only for moral and religious reasons, can be closed so long as these governments can demonstrate that exhausted all the alternatives, to try to reconcile the interests of foreign companies. Legal in the business world, this powerful, if not improbable task. The accident could happen anywhere else Google? There is a difference between censorship rooted in religious law and the case of China. First, the censorship in China, economic protectionism is clearly motivated. Secondly, China has a huge technical and administrative apparatus with the Internet is a small country in the GCC region is clearly not designed for the control of reproduction. Moreover, the latest estimates, China’s internet users (ie consumers) market at about 300 million users. This is considerably higher than all the GCC countries together. With the expansion of the GCC countries are of minor economic interest for exporters in China Silicon Valley, reducing the likelihood of a costly legal battle with a member of the GCC.

However, search engine, Twitter, blogs and Facebook have serious consequences for security policy, like last year, has described the insurgency in Iran as a developer of “Twitter Revolution” in the media busy. The strategic importance of Internet security companies, and seems to communities that have not been provided, at least in China. We can see that many of the measures could be taken against terrorism interfere with international trade law, for example, when foreign telecom companies the freedom to be denied for reasons of national security. This clearly can be a source of litigation. Google stopped censoring their services in China after the events in the month of January. Until now, Chinese policy elite has decided not to respond. The unlikely mix of business are civil rights groups, urban planners and policy information security nerd watching closely how China responds. China’s next step will be, not only in terms of signaling the strength of the administrative apparatus of the importance of China to international pressure, but may also be important precedent in international trade law.