So, I was reading this week's Newsweek - in it, there's a brief article about Google, Yahoo and Microsoft providing search engines with "built-in censorship of critical political content, news sites and information about democracy" to China. This makes me sad. China is not the nicest place in the world to learn things on your own, what with ISP policing and the need for underground Internet cafes - but is it necessary for these 3 giants to change what they essentially do just to get a business contract? I understand, China is just behind the US in Internet users (130 million and counting), but didn't Google kind of start their business because of circumstances like this? Hell, Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' dammit! When did it change to 'Don't be evil, but conform to evil if the money is good.' They came up with a search engine that was revelant because it didn't filter for anything other validity. I don't know what I'd do if I used Google and their search results didn't contain valid sites I was really interested in just because someone paid them not to show it to me. Oh yeah, I'd boycott them.
I'm going to go and have a good cry,
Dys
1 comments:
Didn't read through the whole thing yet, but maybe this will at least help you stop crying. Doesn't justify everything, but they did have good reason to play along with China's rules:
Google Testinmony in China
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