The British Government had already criticized the social media platforms for not being careful about the contents posted online. Now the Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt accused Google of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites.

The British government was in the news recently against online platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove abusive material or sexual content posted online even after they were notified.

Hunt tweeted “Seems extraordinary that Google is considering censoring its content to get into China but won’t cooperate with UK, US ... in removing child abuse content,” Alphabet’s Google plans a search engine in China that will block some search terms and websites, in a move that could mark its return to a market it abandoned eight years ago on censorship concerns.

Google said in a reply statement that they absolutely agree with Hunt that the matter of child sexual abuse is a serious issue and Google is determined to cooperate with governments to fight it online.

Even though Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand had invited major technology companies to attend a meeting on tackling child abuse and extremism on their websites, the companies failed to attend . But Google denied this allegation and clarified that they did offer to send an executive to the conference.

In January, Prime Minister Theresa May used an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos to say investors should use their financial power to force internet firms into taking more responsibility for stopping militants and pedophiles using their platforms.

Google plans to re enter China but most of their search engines are blocked there. Leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have urged Google not to bow to censorship demands in China because by doing so, they allege, the company would be complicit in the repression of freedom of speech.