Google versus China...China still winning...

Censors back on Google as China defends Internet actions is the latest saga in China versus the internet including Google.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu spoke after Google announced that a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" from China targeted it and the e-mail accounts of at least 20 others, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The activists were in the United States, Europe and China, a Google spokesman said.

The attack resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google, and attackers routinely gained access to the e-mail accounts of dozens of activists -- albeit not through the Google network, according to David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Google.

As a result of the attacks, Google has decided to stop the "self-censorship" of its Google site in China and may shut down its site and its offices in China, Drummond said.