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Google Stands Ground on Google.cn
nmccart writes "Google gave testimony on Friday to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. They discussed their decision to build google.cn in China. Elliot Schrage, the vice president for global communications and public affairs at Google describes how these China-based servers fit in to Google's mantra of 'Don't be evil.' Google hopes to use this as an opportunity to help bring global censorship into the spotlight of American politics. Will it work?"
There was a story on NPR yesterday about this; Robert Siegel spoke with a man in Beijing and they compared searches, Robert on google.com and the other guy on google.cn. When asked if the Chinese people were finding ways around the censorship, the guy in Beijing replied that some had found ways around it, but that most were content with what they were being fed. You can listen to the segment at this link .
Sort of like in this country with the whole illegal wiretapping fiasco.
Villainizing a company because they are attempting to help their shareholders and at the same time offering a service we all really enjoy and use for a variety of subjects is completely assanine.
It's not asinine. Why should we villainize Hitler when all he wanted to do was to improve the gene pool and make for happier human beings? Helping someone doesn't make you good. Even if you want to improve something doesn't mean you're good. The "devil", as they say, is in the details.