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Two Positions on Google vs. China

January 14, 2010
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Two Positions on Google vs. China

Hmmmm.  Google vs. China.  That seems like a fair match. Google, with its corporate mantra “Don’t Be Evil,” has never been totally comfortable in China.  The Chinese administration employs an army of censors (estimated to number more than 30,000 and growing) and spends monumental amounts of money to control what its people can and can’t see on the Internet.  Critical comments disappear from Internet forums and blogs almost as soon as they are posted, and searching for information on sensitive topics produces zero results. Google complied with the government’s requests for years, reasoning that being in China was a...

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