Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:15 AM
by
will
CNET 42: Is YouTube a time bomb for Google in China?
On the heels of last week's
Internet Governance Forum in Athens, an event that
yielded some memorable statements,
I thought it might be worth pondering a situation infested with
unroosted chickens: Google's recent purchase of goliath Internet video
sharing site YouTube. Google has had its share of PR trouble from China
in the past year. This hasn't come from inside China, where Google's
main problem has been how to win market share from rampaging Baidu, but
from the US and Europe, where critics have lambasted it for knuckling
under to the Chinese censorship regime. Could the purchase of YouTube
upset Google's delicate balancing act between activists and the Chinese
government?
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more at CNET Asia--
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