Money | Google Google's Brin: China Too 'Totalitarian' Co-founder says it reminds him of his native Soviet Union By Nick McMaster Posted Mar 24, 2010 3:06 PM CDT Copied Security guards peep near the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe) Google's decision to stop service in China was based on the company's growing unease about the compromises required by Beijing, co-founder Sergey Brin tells the Wall Street Journal. The censorship exercised by the government reminded him of life in the Soviet Union, which Brin and his parents left when he was 6. "I see the same earmarks of totalitarianism, and I find that personally quite troubling," he says. Things got worse after the Olympics, and the cyber-attacks in January, allegedly perpetrated by the government to spy on activists, were "the straw that broke the camel's back." Brin says he holds out hope "that the long-term solution is the liberalization of the Internet in mainland China." Read These Next The Wall Street Journal is naming more names tied to Epstein. The White House and South Park are having a tiff. Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. The first video of an earthquake fault slip led to a major discovery. Report an error