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I recently found this article about the our government bitching about some comapnies business practices in CHina (the whole search-engines helping censorship). While I agree that censorship is very wrong, I cannot agree with the majority of our Congress, which basically said the companies should not have helped the Chinese government. What people need to realize is that these companies (Google, Yahoo, etc) are running a business. If our government threatened to kick the companies out if they didn't cooperate, I'm sure the companies (I don't really have a better term, sorry) would do what they could to help, so that they could stay around. Of course, we are much more open to free speech, so it would likely never come up....Or would it?
The point of this whole post is this: a business is supposed to make as much money as possible for it's share/stake-holders. China is a gigantic market, with lots of money to be made. I would also do whatever is necessary to make money if I were in these CEO's position. I may not agree, but my job is to make money for my company (and yes, CEO's can get sued for failing to make money), so I will do whatever is necessary to keep my job.
And before you say I don't have any ethics, consider this from a business standpoint, not a personal standpoint. From a personal point of view, I don't agree with the censorship that these companies partook in. From a business standpoint, I would have done the same thing.
If the US has a problem with China's policies, then the US needs to take it up with China, not Google (or whomever. I've just been successfully programmed to think "search = google").
Dave out
The point of this whole post is this: a business is supposed to make as much money as possible for it's share/stake-holders. China is a gigantic market, with lots of money to be made. I would also do whatever is necessary to make money if I were in these CEO's position. I may not agree, but my job is to make money for my company (and yes, CEO's can get sued for failing to make money), so I will do whatever is necessary to keep my job.
And before you say I don't have any ethics, consider this from a business standpoint, not a personal standpoint. From a personal point of view, I don't agree with the censorship that these companies partook in. From a business standpoint, I would have done the same thing.
If the US has a problem with China's policies, then the US needs to take it up with China, not Google (or whomever. I've just been successfully programmed to think "search = google").
Dave out