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[teacupdiaries]

I never got around to that nap, and now it's too late to take one. DOH! I have NOT been productive today (apart from the gym, class, food shopping, and wrapping ebay items) so i feel a little guilty now. I'm so tiiiiiiired, though.

Anyway, this is important. Read on

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[mokele]

An idealistic part of me wants to think that maybe, just maybe, google is planning on fucking china over on this. Like claiming to be censored, then occaisionally having perfectly innocent technical oopsies that cause the censorship to drop, rather regularly.

That's what *I'd* do, but then I've never let any considerations for legality, ethics, honesty or anything else stand in the way of me doing what I consider the right thing.

[hidenplainsight]

Hmm. Setting aside the legal issues of Google's responsibilities to shareholders and to the nations in which Google operates, and the foresight in China of requiring multinationals to adhere to the laws of whichever country they are operating in at that time (preserving the integrety of the "nation" model of society), the gritty core of the oppression in China and Google's bowing is not that bad when compared to Yahoo, which cooperates in investigations by the Chinese government leading to the arrest and suppression of dissidents within their country. Merely blocking certain key words is a farce. Especially when, as has been demonstrated, you can bypass these filters by mis-spelling the keywords associated with the "censored" content. Because website authors > filtering technology. Just ask any porn site operator.

[mokele]

Setting aside the legal issues of Google's responsibilities to shareholders and to the nations in which Google operates, and the foresight in China of requiring multinationals to adhere to the laws of whichever country they are operating in at that time

Well, from my POV, my responsibility to do the right thing overpowers any responsibility to the shareholders, laws or nations. If my doing the right thing causes the company to go bust, so be it. If it causes an international incident, so be it. If I have the flagrantly break the law to do it, I will.

I believe that not only is breaking unjust laws acceptable, I believe it's our moral responsibility to do so. Given the opportunity as head of Google, I would openly screw China on the deal, boast about it, and use it force an international incident that would compel the world to actually *act* on these horrible human rights abuses.

Deep down, I really am Chaotic Good.

[hidenplainsight]

Actually, you're more of an Anarchist. You promote personal responsibility above everything else; it also places moral/ethical/legal judgement solely in your hands. Thus, it's your views which determine right or wrong

[hidenplainsight]

Without beating a dead horse... try out www.google.cn
I haven't found the censoring yet. But then I'm searching from outside China.
But there's no ads. Yay no ads!