Hecaitou, a prominent blogger based in Beijing

Hecaitou, a prominent blogger based in Beijing, also cheap aion gold applauded the company’s announcement, although for different reasons. The possibility of Google leaving China, he said, would send a message to Chinese leaders intent on imposing greater restrictions online. Or at least he hoped it would.

“In the short term, the Internet environment will be very cold,” he said. “But for the government to close the aion money door and revert to 30 years ago is hard to imagine. If they want to go forward on the information highway, they’ll have to listen to others.”

If Google does leave, it would be an unusual rebuke of China by one of the largest and most admired technology companies, which had for years coveted the country’s 300 million Web users. Google said it would try to negotiate a new arrangement to provide uncensored results on its search site, google.cn. But that is highly aion account unlikely in a country that has the most sweeping Web filtering system in the world. Google said it would otherwise cease to run google.cn and would consider shutting its offices in China, where it employs about 700 people, many of them well-paid software engineers, and has an estimated $300 million a year in revenue.