However, Google decided that its reputation for ethical behavior was more valuable than the potential returns from china’s search engine market. In a highly publicized move on January 12, 2010, Google announced it would stop obeying censorship requirements on its Chinese site. This decision was triggered by increasingly strict government requirements to limit internet freedom in that country, as well as a series of highly sophisticated cyberattacks on its servers in the United States, allegedly originating in China. Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, asserted that these attacks were, “almost singularly focused on getting into Gmail accounts specifically of human-rights activities, inside China or outside.” They were “all part of an overall system bent on suppressing expression, whether it was by controlling internet search results or trying to surveil activists.” CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We like what China is doing in terms of growth…we just don’t like censorship.”