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Google is, in any event, an American corporation founded by Americans with American political values (specifically those of the liberal/socially libertarian wes
by cstross 17y ago
Google is, in any event, an American corporation founded by Americans with American political values (specifically those of the liberal/socially libertarian west coast technosphere). "Don't be evil" is a very political agenda for a corporation in these days of profit maximization as the default setting, and Google -- by the nature of their business model -- also has a profit motive for maximizing uncensored communication.
So from the Chinese communist party point of view, it's absolutely correct to say that Google has a political agenda.
(The question of whose political agenda -- the Party's or Google's -- is better is (a) a value judgement and (b) utterly irrelevant to the question of whether Google's agenda is compatible with that of the Chinese ruling party.)
- est 17y ago> Google is, in any event, an American corporation founded by Americans with American political values Baidu is, in any event, a Chinese corporation founded by Americans with Chinese political values
- garply 17y agoRobin Li is an American? Who are the other founders?
- garply 17y agoI often feel like people here are drinking too much of the Google kool-aid. A corporate slogan is just a corporate slogan - it's a form of advertising, designed to make you like their brand more. Google, like all publicly owned companies, exists to make money, not to forward a political agenda - unless that political agenda helps them make more money.