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The search in other parts of the world is already distorted or full on censored across various "morally acceptable bounds". China just happens to have different
by sbinthree 8y ago
The search in other parts of the world is already distorted or full on censored across various "morally acceptable bounds". China just happens to have different morality. This is more akin to McDonalds having a different menu everywhere than it is akin to Orwellian thought policing or that being a universal wrong. The morality is different and ethical is subjective. If you don't like it, don't use it, but to say this is some kind of outright evil imposed by the government is to ignore that the majority of Chinese support Confucian morality and there is little concept of Western style privacy. Why should China abide by Google employees morality? That is the bigger question to me. Why should Google abide by their employees morality either?
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoI strongly disagree. Political censorship that is supposed to keep rulers in power by shielding them from criticism is categorically different from the sort of McDonald's menu style censorship you're talking about. Political censorship is meta-censorship if you will. It prevents people from openly debating and overturning other types of censorship or laws more generally. Rules affecting the decision making process itself are never quite the same as other rules.