Google takes a principal stand
Can someone explain to me why Google, Inc. is a 1st Amendment hero? Because they're not providing a judge with some anonymous search data? Is it because they stand in defiance of government to protect their users from infringements on their rights?
Why aren't they defying China's government, when it asks them to help censor the internet for Chinese users? Why are they selling out for that almighty yuan? Maybe if Google, Inc. were to take a principled stand, some of the leading search engine/web browser/email service/software companies would follow, and maybe China would have to choose between offering its people a free internet (in the important sense, not the pricing sense), and offering them no internet at all. Instead, Google (and Yahoo!, et al.) decided it would be more expedient, and profitable, to just let the tyrants of Beijing have it their way.
But feel free to search for porn.
SRS
Why aren't they defying China's government, when it asks them to help censor the internet for Chinese users? Why are they selling out for that almighty yuan? Maybe if Google, Inc. were to take a principled stand, some of the leading search engine/web browser/email service/software companies would follow, and maybe China would have to choose between offering its people a free internet (in the important sense, not the pricing sense), and offering them no internet at all. Instead, Google (and Yahoo!, et al.) decided it would be more expedient, and profitable, to just let the tyrants of Beijing have it their way.
But feel free to search for porn.
SRS
posted by weblogbob83 at 11:20 PM
1 Comments:
I agree, I was really pissed off when I heard about google just going along with the censorship of the Chinese Government. If they're going for this 'hey, were lefty,cool and stuff' image, then this is not the way to go.
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