1. Friday May 25, 2018
      Home > News > Economy
      Text:| Print|

      US court dismisses Baidu lawsuit

      2013-03-27 09:20 Global Times     Web Editor: Sun Tian comment

      A lawsuit brought in the US against Baidu Inc, China's largest search engine, by eight Chinese Americans who claimed the company and the Chinese government should be punished for censoring online articles, has been dismissed.

      US District Judge Jesse Furman in New York City said on Monday the dismissal was proper because the defendants had not been properly served with court papers, and China had cited an international treaty in claiming that service would infringe on its sovereignty, Reuters reported.

      Kaiser Kuo, director of international communications for Baidu, confirmed the dismissal to the Global Times but declined to make any comment on it.

      Eight New York City residents alleged Baidu and China violated free-speech provisions of US and New York state laws.

      Bloomberg reported that the eight Americans sued Baidu and China in 2011 and accused the company of "purposely designing its search engine to exclude pro-democracy topics in conjunction with and as an agent and enforcer of the People's Republic of China."

      Internet service providers on the Chinese mainland, especially search engines and social network platforms, screen online content according to relevant laws.

      Some popular foreign websites are also blocked on the mainland.

      Some Chinese Internet industry insiders see the lawsuit as ridiculous.

      "For any Internet service provider to survive, it must abide by local laws and regulations. Baidu screened search results according to Chinese laws and it should not be punished for that by US domestic laws," Li Yi, secretary-general of the China Mobile Internet Industry Alliance, told the Global Times.

      China did not make a formal appearance in the litigation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had yet to comment on the case as of Tuesday. The ministry did not reply to questions sent by the Global Times via facsimile.

      But on May 19, 2011, foreign ministry spokesman Jiang Yu dismissed the lawsuit, saying China's legal management of the Internet is in line with international practice and is a sovereign act, adding that foreign courts have no jurisdiction according to international laws.

      The plaintiffs said their content could be found through other search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and Google's video-sharing service YouTube, and that the suppression on Baidu justified millions of dollars in damages, according to Reuters.

      But Furman said there was "plainly no merit" to the idea that the defendants were properly served. Furman put the dismissal on hold for 30 days to allow the plaintiffs a chance to propose another means of serving Baidu, and show why China should not be dismissed as a defendant, Reuters reported.

      Comments (0)

      Copyright ©1999-2011 Chinanews.com. All rights reserved.
      Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.

      主站蜘蛛池模板: 七色永久性tv网站免费看| 国产VA免费精品高清在线| 3344免费播放观看视频| 亚洲AV无码一区东京热久久| 免费国产污网站在线观看| 亚洲精品国产精品乱码视色| 野花香高清在线观看视频播放免费 | 亚洲区小说区图片区| 四虎影视在线看免费观看| 亚洲VA综合VA国产产VA中| 免费在线人人电影网| 亚洲人午夜射精精品日韩| www一区二区www免费| 亚洲人成网77777亚洲色| 久久精品视频免费播放| 亚洲第一香蕉视频| 毛色毛片免费观看| 色综合久久精品亚洲国产| 亚洲成A∨人片天堂网无码| 国产特黄一级一片免费 | 国产在线观看免费不卡| 一级视频免费观看| 亚洲va国产va天堂va久久| 在线美女免费观看网站h| 在线观看亚洲AV每日更新无码| 日韩免费视频网站| 久久国产福利免费| 久久久久亚洲av无码专区喷水| 亚洲成人免费电影| 亚洲av第一网站久章草| 亚洲综合色自拍一区| 日本免费网站视频www区| 亚洲avav天堂av在线网毛片| 亚洲熟妇无码乱子AV电影| 99久久国产热无码精品免费 | 国产性生大片免费观看性| 911精品国产亚洲日本美国韩国 | 亚洲av无码片在线观看| 日韩亚洲国产综合久久久| 你懂的免费在线观看网站| 亚洲AV永久无码天堂影院|