cyber attack

A representative of the Chinese government said Saturday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was being "disrespectful" when she urged U.S. companies to stand up to Internet censorship in authoritarian countries like China.

A day after Google said it might quit China after a cyber attack hacked the Gmail accounts of human rights activists there, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked China's leaders for an explanation. Free speech advocates, meanwhile, praised the search giant's decision to remove censorship filters in the country.