Google said to limit the practice of network information flow of the threat of free trade, the countries should start a new consultation, to protect U.S. commercial interests from harm.
Google on Monday (the 15th) released a policy paper said more than 40 countries worldwide government restrictions on large-scale online information, the figures increased by more than 10 times a decade ago.
Valley songs say so, these actions constitute an unnecessary restriction on trade, if left unchecked, the situation will get worse.
Google believes that China, Vietnam, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan and other countries use various means of control of one or the flow of network information, so that Google, facebook, Twitter, eBay and Amazon and other companies to operate under threat.
Google said that these constraints restrict the search engines means, including Internet service, or keywords; the use of a licensing system or other system to force the company to remove certain search results; to cancel some of the site or domain name; asked Internet companies self-discipline.
Google believes that global Internet commerce will soon rise to one trillion dollars, thousands of American companies, China and other countries can only be in exceptional cases, a review of network information or restrictions, it is very important .
Assist in drafting the policy documents Google's lawyers, said David Wheeler, Google hopes that the national restrictions on the practice of network information not only from economic considerations, but also from human rights considerations.
Weller said the lawyer, more and more companies have to rely on the survival of the swift flow of information in the world, limit less the better, because the government's restrictions may deal a fatal blow to the company business.
Google affairs director of public policy, said Stan Bull, to persuade the countries to give up information on the network constraints, economic factors may be more than useful human rights reasons.
He said, when you tell the countries concerned, "If you impede the free flow of information, you may lose foreign investment", which is more likely to cause the listener's attention, instead of using the words of human rights.
Earlier this year, Google announced a freeze in accordance with Chinese law information filtering, the search service transferred to Hong Kong from mainland China. However, including Google Maps, including a number of services still remain in the Google China under the domain name.
China is the world's largest Internet market, and 4.2 million Internet users.
Statistics show that the third quarter, Google has 25% market share in China, far lower than the Chinese search engine Baidu, Baidu's market share in China at present is 73%.
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