Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
If this is true, then how can they explain their decision to support China's censorship laws? Google accepting the censorship standard by Chinese law to is a sacrifice of the people's interest to achieve business profits. This only encourages China to continue this practice by making it acceptable. If they wanted to do good they would publicly denounce this practice and state why, in good conscience, they will not do business in China. It is sad that it always comes down to the almighty dollar.
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. If this is true, then how can they explain their decision to support China's censorship laws? Google accepting the censorship standard by Chinese law to is a sacrifice of the people's interest to achieve business profits. This only encourages China to continue this practice by making it acceptable. If they wanted to do good they would publicly denounce this practice and state why, in good conscience, they will not do business in China. It is sad that it always comes down to the almighty dollar.