Don't be evil?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011202948.html?hpid=topnews
-1 Distrust of Google.
It is a good day.
I dont know...
Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
Quote from: JohNyx on January 13, 2010, 01:40:39 AM
I dont know...
Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
More than Yahoo or Microsoft?
Link to the blog announcement (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html).
I applaud this decision. It'd be easy to be cynical about this if that's where you're coming from, but it'd tough to argue that they don't stand to lose more money by taking this principled approach.
Quote from: FP on January 13, 2010, 02:44:02 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on January 13, 2010, 01:40:39 AM
I dont know...
Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
More than Yahoo or Microsoft?
Link to the blog announcement (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html).
I applaud this decision. It'd be easy to be cynical about this if that's where you're coming from, but it'd tough to argue that they don't stand to lose more money by taking this principled approach.
The blog post is just showing me their discourse, not necesarily their true intentions.
But you are right in the sense that they would lose money by doing this; China is a huge market after all.
Whenever a corporation intentionally does something that will hurt their profits, it must be allowable that the corporation has made an ethical decision.
Ethics in corporations is becoming more fashionable lately.
Quote from: Felix on January 13, 2010, 03:00:38 AM
Whenever a corporation intentionally does something that will hurt their profits, it must be allowable that the corporation has made an ethical decision.
Ethics in corporations is becoming more fashionable lately the new black.
:lulz:
Apparently, the announcement itself is being censored in China (albeit not completely.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/world/asia/14beijing.html?hp
Repost (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=23739.0)
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 13, 2010, 06:51:18 PM
Repost (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=23739.0)
This thread is earlier.
Other thread is populararer :p
That's what I get for posting the topic in the related forum.
Yeah, maybe the other thread should be appended to this one.
That'd be like Poland annexing Germany :argh!:
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on January 15, 2010, 04:59:49 AM
That's what I get for posting the topic in the related forum.
Awww, I just thought it was more about politics (censorship) than technology (only because it's about Google and the Internet).
And, I didn't check, and fully admit that my thread is repost.
AND MOAR POPULAR
HA!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2010, 09:27:14 AM
That'd be like Poland annexing Germany :argh!:
Except that Germany as a distinct territory is, arguably, older.
So maybe more like Germany annexing the USSR.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 15, 2010, 09:38:50 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2010, 09:27:14 AM
That'd be like Poland annexing Germany :argh!:
Except that Germany as a distinct territory is, arguably, older.
So maybe more like Germany annexing the USSR.
Wir marschieren auf einer Straße der russischen Knochen!
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=ax3R._M1rgys (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=ax3R._M1rgys)
Huh. So what has actually changed? Because that article makes it sound like nothing has changed (yet) since the announcement.