China renewed Google's internet license after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site, an official said
The problem is, I believe, although IANAL, that there is no law against automatically redirecting. And saying it like this, it seems that Google has started censoring again. Although it is not explicit I can safely assume from the amount of comments in this section that people understood this sentence as if it said that Google has started censoring again. It's a problem with natural language, it's vague, and this, as it seems, purposely leave the question if google.cn is censoring again.
Google promised to 'obey Chinese law' and avoid linking to material deemed a threat to national security or social stability, said Zhang Feng, director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Telecoms Development Department, at a news conference.
Yes, they did stop doing that, just that they did it years ago when they started censoring google.cn; not relevant.
google.cn was always censored since it began, so it makes no sense pointing it out.
Again, you can't search on google.cn and google.com.hk is not censored
Oh, so you mean, you do agree with the story? So it is true? Comment fail.
No, I didn't say that. RTFA and see that it implicitly says that Google.cn is censored. If we start saying that things that do not have infringing material are censored, I can safely assume that gardening.org is also censored. Oh, the humanity!
Read the comments above mine and see if people understood the same thing you did. If you believe they did, then you are right, I failed at my comment; but I believe it's clear that people understood it wrong, and, as many comments above and below mine, I think that it was necessary for people to read and not get the image that google stepped down on it's promise to stop censoring.
