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17:41 15th March 2010
Google will "pay the consequences" if it does not comply with China's censorship laws, the country's top internet official has warned.
Speaking at China's annual legislation session, minister of industry and information technology Li Yizhong said the nation's interest should be preserved.
"We cannot be relaxed with any information that will cause harm to the stability of our society, to our system, and to the health of our under-age young people," he said.
In January, the web giant announced that it would no longer comply with Chinese law, warning that it might close google.cn because of censorship and a hacking attack on the portal.
Li said that whether Google quits China or not is "up to them", adding that the internet would prosper in the country regardless.
In other news, Google has been sued by a Gmail user for allegedly violating data privacy laws when it launched social network service Buzz last month.
Andranik Souvalian of Cranston, Rhode Island, has filed a complaint claiming that the web giant deliberately exceeded its authorisation to access and control confidential and private data.
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