The only way to fight Google is to let your voice be heard as widely as possible.
Please write to Google about your thoughts. Google offers a bad product to Chinese users. Let market decides. Then Wall Street will put it on notice.
To be fair to Google, it's by no means the worst collaborator of China's censorers. Yahoo did that well before and it did not help its business at all. Google should not be an exception.
Does that mean in order to 'offer best Internet experience for Saudi users' and 'abide by Saudi laws', Google should censor its news search results and include only those sources approved by royal family, creating an online collection of Wahhabism and Jihadism?
That's exactly what they are doing in China.
Oct. 3, 2004, PDT 2 am
http://news.google.com/news?ned=cn&hl=zh-CN
The run down of the headlines in English translation:
300 million people/time participated in defending mother river campaign in past 5 years;
Weekly highlights;
Sharon: Gaza operation will continue;
US planes and warships frequenting North Korea, experts doubt so called 'missile threat';
Latest poll: Kerry beats Bush after debate
Tourists soar in attractions nationwide;
China and G7 calling for stable oil market;
Severe traffice accidents surge;
Guangdong monitors firms, businesses devided into 4 categories;
Anti-money-laundering admin set up;
Hangzhou's prospects: wedding business;
New virus found by national center;
Academia Sinica: new scientific revolution in making;
Half of nation's junk mail server found in Guangdong;......
So what's the problem with adhering to Chinese law if you set up office in China?
Sounds like a perfect defense for IBM in 30s that conducted business with the Third Reich and made profit from the Holocaust.
The key flaw in the logic there is to view China as a normal country like France. Every Chinese can tell you that China is NO France, despite the effort of that murderous regime trying to give it a human face. Unfortunately, they have achieved some degree of success.
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The only way to fight Google is to let your voice be heard as widely as possible.
Please write to Google about your thoughts. Google offers a bad product to Chinese users. Let market decides. Then Wall Street will put it on notice.
To be fair to Google, it's by no means the worst collaborator of China's censorers. Yahoo did that well before and it did not help its business at all. Google should not be an exception.
Does that mean in order to 'offer best Internet experience for Saudi users' and 'abide by Saudi laws', Google should censor its news search results and include only those sources approved by royal family, creating an online collection of Wahhabism and Jihadism?
That's exactly what they are doing in China.
Oct. 3, 2004, PDT 2 am http://news.google.com/news?ned=cn&hl=zh-CN The run down of the headlines in English translation: 300 million people/time participated in defending mother river campaign in past 5 years; Weekly highlights; Sharon: Gaza operation will continue; US planes and warships frequenting North Korea, experts doubt so called 'missile threat'; Latest poll: Kerry beats Bush after debate Tourists soar in attractions nationwide; China and G7 calling for stable oil market; Severe traffice accidents surge; Guangdong monitors firms, businesses devided into 4 categories; Anti-money-laundering admin set up; Hangzhou's prospects: wedding business; New virus found by national center; Academia Sinica: new scientific revolution in making; Half of nation's junk mail server found in Guangdong; ... ...
The key flaw in the logic there is to view China as a normal country like France. Every Chinese can tell you that China is NO France, despite the effort of that murderous regime trying to give it a human face. Unfortunately, they have achieved some degree of success.