Comment Re:Whose "evil"? (Score 1) 742
Whose evil? Google's own definition of evil.
This has little to do with China's or the US's or the rest of the world's definition of evil. Google as a corporation has a set of ethics and morals by which they purport to do business, summed up in the phrase "Don't Be Evil". The self-proclaimed mission of Google is the indexing all of the world's information -- and by extension the distribution of that information to the world. It seems that in agreeing to China's demands, they are stepping back from the spirit embodied in the phrase "Don't Be Evil", hence the calls of hypocracy.
Some here have suggested that agreeing to these demands may be for the greater good, and that Google could be used as a wedge to help free information within China. This may be true in the long-term, and time may prove that to be true, but in the short-term Google seems to have in some fundamental way their own founding principle.
This has little to do with China's or the US's or the rest of the world's definition of evil. Google as a corporation has a set of ethics and morals by which they purport to do business, summed up in the phrase "Don't Be Evil". The self-proclaimed mission of Google is the indexing all of the world's information -- and by extension the distribution of that information to the world. It seems that in agreeing to China's demands, they are stepping back from the spirit embodied in the phrase "Don't Be Evil", hence the calls of hypocracy.
Some here have suggested that agreeing to these demands may be for the greater good, and that Google could be used as a wedge to help free information within China. This may be true in the long-term, and time may prove that to be true, but in the short-term Google seems to have in some fundamental way their own founding principle.
