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By Jessica E. Vascellaro Wall Street Journal

Behind the drastic decision of Google this week to close its search engine in China is apparently changing its co-founder Sergey Brin about what must be sacrificed to do business in a country increasingly reminded his native Soviet Union .
The change began to just after the Beijing Olympics, Brin said in an interview.
After dissipating the magic of the Games, told the Chinese government began to increase its Internet censorship and interfere more with the business of Google. At that time, he added, the murky rules for doing business in China is more obscured.
“China was everywhere,” he said. “In one in five meetings he had attended a component that is applied differently in China than in other countries.”
Google co-founder also affected China’s growing evidence of the use of repressive measures which reminded the Soviet Union, where he fled with his parents when he was only 6 years. Brin, now 36, says that the memories of then-Russian police visits to his house antisemitic discrimination against his father encouraged him to abandon the policy of Google.
China has made great progress against poverty and many other things, “Brin said. “But in some aspects of their policies, especially in regard to censorship, surveillance of dissidents, see the same signs of totalitarianism, something that, personally it bothers me.” Read the rest of this entry »