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Google Fights Global Internet Censorship
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A Google sign is posted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in this April 19, 2007 file photo. Google Inc. is seeking help from the U.S. government to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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So when censorship is bad for business, Google is against it; but when it helps their business (China), they support it. How again is this "doing no evil"?
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#1 - Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:02 PM EDTYeah it seems like they're asking the government to make them not censor because they don't have the balls to do it themselves.
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Well Google is in a bit of a pickle really, china has one of the biggest internet user population of any country and of course is rapidly growing, and if Google didn't censor it, then china would simply block Google altogether and that would be that. The problem is the Chinese government being a dictatorship, now that is just pure evil.
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#2 - Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:17 PM EDTIt's a pickle when it comes to the bottom dollar. It's not a pickle on a purely moral level when your services support the murder and mutilation of disaffected Chinese activists, religious peoples, and unwilling organ donors.
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Google means business. But at the other end, there should be societal humilities maintained. Censorship should be a must in any kind of mass media, else, the sex-hound teens, who are already on the wrong path, will ruin themselves......
#3 - Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:34 AM EDTI disagree with your idea that "mass-media" should always be censored to protect the children. (Also, I don't think the internet as a whole falls into the "mass media" category). But what China and these other countries are doing is not for the benefit of the children, or moral decency at all, it's for the benefit of the Chinese government.
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