Chinese government remains content with Googke’s move to filter porn links

On Sunday ex-chief of Google China reported that the national government approved of its decision to filter porn from search results on its China portal following state-led criticism of the links. Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Greater China for Google, wrote on a Chinese blog that the argument with Beijing cooled down in July, after government censors met with Google and revoked a suspension of some features on its site.

In June the Chinese state watchdog criticized Google for showing pornographic links in search results on its Chinese portal. Chinese government briefly blocked nationwide access to Google.com and other Google Web sites and ordered the company to suspend "foreign Web site search services" until the links were removed.

Thus, Google decided to compromise and change its searching algorithms so as to filter porno results but whether the China’s administration remained satisfied is uncertain yet. The only thing that was mentioned by Lee was that multiple heads of government bureaus revoked the suspension and praised Google for having a "serious attitude" toward fighting low-brow content.

A Google spokeswoman last month said Google, as a global company, "should strictly comply with local laws, regulations and policies."