Google vs. China

What should Google do about China’s insistence on internet censorship?  The world has been watching this evolving conflict with great interest.

If Google continues to stand up to China, it may lose highly lucrative partnerships with Chinese companies.  But China loses each day it goes without the world’s #1 search engine and draws ever more attention to its oppressive information policies.

What I find particularly interesting about this is how this negotiation, involving some of our most sacred political rights, is going on not between governments or advocacy organizations, but by a corporation.  Hey, money talks.  And when it does, even the most stubborn regimes listen.

-Colin

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March 24, 2010 · Filed Under Free expression, International Relations, Rights

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