I’m sure that all that needs to be said has already been said about Google’s decision to censor their own offering.
I suppose I find it sad that even one of the biggest companies on the planet with unparralleled power in the supply of information, still feels that it needs to bend over and do the Chinese government’s bidding
It does scare me that there’s this filtering going on, and as was raised in the Newsnight report tonight, will the Chinese people really thank those companies that have gotten into bed with the dictatorship in place today? Will it actually be a backwards step in the long term?
I’m sure that there are those in China who recall that Rupert Murdoch threw the BBC off his satellite system to make it acceptable to the Chinese government and get a foothold in one of the fastest growing markets on the planet. He refused to publish Chris Patton’s memoirs along the way.