Thomas Bridge <> said on 15 February 2006 13:04:
> Folks, Google is a PLC. That's it - the moment they did that they
> moved away from a position where they could take a principled stand
> on things like Net censorship and towards a position where they had
> to take a pragmatic view,
Exactly
Google is a company with shareholders.
The entire "do no evil" ideal is cute, but not that realistic when they have
shareholders to answer to.
If Google had not entered the Chinese market they would have been making a
bad business decision.
It's kind of amusing that people are only waking up to the realisation that
Google is just as "evil" as any other company.
Michele
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