And while everyone seems to claim that Google's actions in this case, and in the infamous case of Chinese censorship, violated their motto of "Don't Be Evil," it seems that very few people actually read Google's explanation of their de facto motto.
SearchCast, June 7, 2006: Google Rethinking Chinese Censorship? Suggests Google Might Reverse Chinese Censorship In The Short Term; Meanwhile, Google might reverse its policy of censoring on behalf of the Chinese government.
It's perfectly reasonable to do something different, to say, 'Look, we're going to stand by the principle against censorship and we won't actually operate there. The "not where we chose to go right now" sort of defused the idea that dropping...
The story covers suggested accusations that Baidu got China to block Google in 2002 (which Baidu denies) and how the Chinese government cowers companies into doing more self-censorship than they probably need to.
Today, of course, Google cooperates to do the Chinese government's censorship. Less than a week after Google said it would fight the US government to defend its users, news came that it would cave into the Chinese government's demands for...
Google's Chinese Censorship "Absolutely The Right Move," Says CEO Schmidt Now along with news of Google's new Chinese name, Google Blogoscoped points to an Associated Press article where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying the decision was...
Now along with news of Google's new Chinese name, Google even created an evil scale to decide just how bad censoring would be. Saying that Google made "absolutely" the right move is about as bad as still saying one of the mottos is "Don't Be Evil.
As for "you can make money without doing evil," you know that's not so when you yourselves created an evil scale to decide just how bad bowing to Chinese censorship would be for you. Now you've had that backed up legally, but that doesn't make it...
That seems absurd given the worldwide coverage of Google bending to the Chinese government's censorship demands last month. Providing disclosure is a key element to it justifying the censorship it does for the Chinese government, as it explained...
Agrees To Chinese Censorship. Chinese censorship policy. As I explained in our SEW Forums thread on the censorship issue: Meanwhile, Boing Boing notes censorship might be happening in Google Azerbaijan.
Google Created EvilRank Scale To Decide On Chinese Censorship Today's search podcast covers a new version of the Google Toolbar with bookmarking features being released; how Google does censorship in China; how
Apparently, not being in China at all would have been a 10 on the EvilRank scale while bending to Chinese censorship demands was somewhat less evil than that (ER2? Google has not once suggested that failure to bend to Chinese censorship demands...
Google Agrees To Chinese Censorship at our Search Engine Watch Forums. Censors Itself For China & Paid Exclusion As Being Evil explains more about how a misspelling might cause a failure in the automatic censorship filters that
Google Agrees To Chinese Censorship at our Search Engine Watch Forums. If this is what's happening -- if censorship in China from Google means a combination of blacklisted sites but automated filtering -- then it explains some of the disclosure...
Chinese censorship, I like some of the way Google is reacting to the demands. Chinese government deems abusive, can't you at least tell those in China still trying to go to the former address, "Blog removed because of Chinese censorship demands.
Accusations of ever having caved into Chinese censorship demands are dismissed, as they've been in the past. But interestingly, neither says outright that they'd refused to allow censorship, if demanded.
