First, read the Actual Google Code of Conduct.
[…] Apparently, evolving corporate principals mean that if China wants you to actually be evil, you say, “sure!”.
Also, this is why Codes of Conduct, Vision Statements, Etc. have such a dismal reputation among American corporate workers. They’re either rah-rah bs designed to get us to put more time and effort into a company than it’s worth. Or simply a waste of time to keep the executives busy.
First, read the Actual Google Code of Conduct.
[…] Apparently, evolving corporate principals mean that if China wants you to actually be evil, you say, “sure!”.
Also, this is why Codes of Conduct, Vision Statements, Etc. have such a dismal reputation among American corporate workers. They’re either rah-rah bs designed to get us to put more time and effort into a company than it’s worth. Or simply a waste of time to keep the executives busy.
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The fark.com headline for this was funny.
"China to google - 'Suck it.' Google to China - 'ok!'"
Anyway, the optimist in me wants to think that, it's better for US companies to be in control of China's censoring, than to encourage Chinese companies to rise up to the task. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hopefully, Microsoft and Google will, at some point, turn on China, and allow information to flow through, and pretend that it's just a security hole in the system.
On the other hand, they're probably just being evil.