You can’t swing a cat right now without hearing about Google’s decision to ’self-censor’ itself in order to do business in China. It’s indeed a troubling thing; bad enough that a government should hinder the free flow of information, but should an American success story like Google facilitate it? Oh, sure, it’s China, and that means the biggest developing economy in the world…it’s not hard to understand WHY Google did what it did…but it brings up many, many questions of an ethical and political nature.
You can’t swing a cat right now without hearing about Google’s decision to ’self-censor’ itself in order to do business in China. It’s indeed a troubling thing; bad enough that a government should hinder the free flow of information, but should an American success story like Google facilitate it? Oh, sure, it’s China, and that means the biggest developing economy in the world…it’s not hard to understand WHY Google did what it did…but it brings up many, many questions of an ethical and political nature.