Vietnamese students surf Internet and play online games at an Internet cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Google Inc. says malicious software has been used to spy on Vietnamese computer users opposed to a controversial bauxite mine in the Southeast Asian country. Computer security firm McAfee said the perpetrators may be linked to the communist government.
Young men play online games at an internet cafe in Beijing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a major speech on Internet freedom two months ago, called on US technology firms not to support online censorship.
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Christine Jones, executive vice president and general counsel of the Go Daddy Group. Michael Arrington, founder of US technology blog TechCrunch derided Go Daddy's move as a "publicity stunt.
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A stand worker walks past a Google logo at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2007. Google said Wednesday it had reached agreement with the Italian culture ministry to scan up to a million books housed in the national libraries of Rome and Florence.
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Chinese college students hold a candlelight vigil outside the Google head office in Beijing holding placards saying, "We Love Google" after Google stopped censoring search engine results in China the day before. Two days after Google halted censorship in China, another leading US Internet company, Go Daddy, said it was cutting back on its activities there because of Chinese regulations.
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