
It is a picture you will not find on Google in China. The organization that has paraded its liberal and humanitarian credentials, promising to do no evil, did a deal with the Chinese government. In return for being allowed set up Google.cn, they promised to censor a good deal of the material.
It seems that Google feels it ought to rethink its whole position on China, with Brin saying that perhaps a principled approach now makes more sense. Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
Brin, in Washington to lobby the Senate
“to approve a plan that would prevent telephone and cable companies from collecting premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for faster delivery of their services”,because that might break the stranglehold those companies have on delivery of internet services, had to answer some searching questions on the subject of China.
It’s so unfair, he said. After all, everybody else does the same – agrees to do what the Chinese government demands and they don’t get an international outcry.
This is not precisely true. There were outcries when Microsoft and Yahoo! behaved despicably in China. But it is Google’s founders who strut around in self-righteous prattishness. So it is only fair that Google should get the biggest share of moral condemnation.
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