BRUSSELS — Google Inc. is asking the U.S. and European governments to press China to lift Internet censorship, describing it as an unfair barrier to free trade.
David Drummond, the company's chief lawyer, says government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship ... is going to be arrested."
He told reporters Wednesday that China's censorship "is also used as a way of keeping multinational companies disadvantaged in the market."
Google, the world's most-used search engine, sparred with China's leaders for two months before finding a way to stop censoring its search results in the country. Since late March, Google has been redirecting search requests from mainland China to Hong Kong, which doesn't have the same restrictions.