[IP] more on Google, China, and Ethics

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: June 11, 2006 4:22:19 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Google, China, and Ethics

> [Google's co-founder] Sergey Brin clarified his statement shortly  
> after,
> dashing any hopes that we might have had that he and the company
> would follow the principled approach:
>
> 	After admitting earlier this week that Google's sellout to Beijing
> 	stood in stark contrast to the company's vaunted "don't be evil"
> 	absolutism, co-founder Sergey Brin said Google intends to abide by
> 	Beijing's censorship restrictions anyway. ...

Sergey was born in Moscow, in 1973, but apparently moved to the USA  
when he was only five.  He and his father now live here, and -- at  
the least -- remain in contact with each other.

His father must surely have told his son about The Bad Old Days of  
living in a censored, totalitarian state, under Stalin, et al.

Thus, it seems especially surprising that he would accept China's  
censorship, apparently as "just the price of doing business".  Or ...  
perhaps it, thus, should not be surprising -- especially in these  
days of anything-for-a-buck.

--jim


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