Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values

Jason Jardine linked us to a well written piece discussing how Google has thus far promised to Do No Evil, but their recent decisions regarding censorship in china make a mockery of those values. We've been following this story all along, but I thought this article makes good food for thought.

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One Monkey

[ackthpt]

One Monkey saw no evil by covering his eyes with his hands.

Google sees no evil by choosing not to see evil.

Another analogy

[Scareduck]

The Republicans claimed Clinton was immoral for getting blow jobs on the job. Once they get into office, they then start defending a chain of secret prisons throughout the world, kidnaping, and torture. This is supposed to be an improvement?

Google's refusal to hand over search terms to the Feds is a good thing, let's not forget that. But cozying up to the Chinese makes me think they're on their way to a least-common-denominator set of policies about censorship. And that is most decidedly a bad thing.

Google has been mocking its "values" for awhile

[loggia]

- When a CNET reporter used Google's own search to write about CEO Eric Schmidt, Google banned CNET for a year.

- A Google employee was handled brusquely and terminated after blogging about his experiences.

- Many meta search engines that provide a valuable service by combining search results have been banned from using Google by its lawyers.

The list goes on...

Re:Love Capitalism or Hate America.

[Caspian]

I trust in globalization alright. I trust it implicitly-- to drive everyone's wages down to Third World levels and make the mega-rich even richer.