The tension between Google and the Chinese government ratcheted up a notch last night when China blocked Google search and Gmail for an hour.
The government had already told the company to stop porn appearing in its search results, and earlier in the day Xinhua and People’s Daily, the main media outlet for the state and Communist party, had condemned Google, according to the Guardian.
Earlier this week Google had reportedly agreed to filter porn out of its Chinese searches.
Xiao Qiang, the founder of China Digital Times, told the newspaper:
