GRITtv: Google Vs. China: Human Rights or Intellectual Property?

In recent weeks, the tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated in a strange place: cyberspace. Specifically, Google decided that it was no longer willing to continue censoring results on Google.cn, and may potentially shut down its operations in China. Google cited hacker attacks on human rights activists as its primary reason, but Tricia Wang, ethnographer and researcher of technology usage in low-income communities, and Alex Pasternack, editor of Motherboard.tv, note that there are plenty of other issues at play here: intellectual property, class issues within China, and more.