the BB controversy was not the first dispute of its kind between governments and communication companies over information control.the google-china controversy was very similar to the controversy of RIM. any company that entered china should abide by the stringent chinese censorship rules, including the self-censorship rule.on january 12 , google announced that it was no longer willing to censor the searches and might pull out of the country. on march 22, Google announced that it would automatically re-route its searches from the chinese search engine to its hong kong-based website, where google was not requuired legally to censor searches