Breakfast briefing: What next as Google ends China censorship?

• The big news overnight was the announcement by Google that it is going to stop censoring its search results in China - in what the company says is a response to surveillance by the state . The move, which is basically giving two fingers to the authorities, could lead to it being kicked out of the country - but in any case, brings an end to four troubled years of censorship . • Initial reports from around the web suggested that the censorship was already being lifted: however, a Google spokesman confirmed to me that was definitely not the case. The secondary question becomes what happens next: how does this effect the work of the Global Network Initiative ? Do Microsoft and Yahoo (and other western companies) make similar changes? How does Beijing react? • Away from questions of censorship, we're finally wrapping up our coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show with the latest episode of Tech Weekly . We're talking to Pure about their plan to expand digital radio into the US, and representatives of a UK government mission to promote British technology companies at the show. All that and more here . You can follow our links and commentary each day through Twitter ( @guardiantech , or our personal accounts ) or by watching our Delicious feed .