Every day, "Le Figaro" looks back on a resounding hacking carried out against a large company or an institution.
March 20, 2010. The news has the effect of a small bomb. Google decides to close its Beijing offices and leave China. An incomprehensible decision when the American giant has spent years negotiating with the authorities, reluctant to make any concessions, to finally succeed in settling in the country four years earlier.
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By landing in the Middle Kingdom in 2006, Google had accepted all of the government's terms. Okay, search engine query results will exclude any "banned" topic. Okay, keywords like "Dalai Lama" or "Tiananmen Massacre" won't work. Okay, the search suggestions, which appear when you enter a keyword, will be disabled to avoid any unfortunate proposition. In short, the company has played the game. Even if it means suffering the wrath
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