http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/ A Global Blog by Students for a Free Tibet Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/comment-page-1/#comment-26202 Emboldened » Blog Archive » Founder: Google.cn Was “Bad For The Company” Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:01:57 +0000 http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/07/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/#comment-26202 [...] Last June Brin announced that Google had “compromised its principles” in abandoning their “Don’t be evil” motto to partner with the Chinese government. Admitting that your critics had you pegged from Day One is well and good, particularly when the criticism levied against Google by Students for a Free Tibet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Initiative. But if agreeing with your critics doesn’t lead you to change your behavior, then you have not yet reclaimed your principles nor made the right decision. From what was said yesterday a policy change seemed unlikely in the near future. Co-founder Larry Page said: “We always consider what to do. But I don’t think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception.” [...] [...] Last June Brin announced that Google had “compromised its principles” in abandoning their “Don’t be evil” motto to partner with the Chinese government. Admitting that your critics had you pegged from Day One is well and good, particularly when the criticism levied against Google by Students for a Free Tibet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Initiative. But if agreeing with your critics doesn’t lead you to change your behavior, then you have not yet reclaimed your principles nor made the right decision. From what was said yesterday a policy change seemed unlikely in the near future. Co-founder Larry Page said: “We always consider what to do. But I don’t think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception.” [...]

]]> http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/comment-page-1/#comment-26200 Tibet Will Be Free » Blog Archive » Founder: Google.cn Was “Bad For The Company” Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:49:19 +0000 http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/07/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/#comment-26200 [...] Last June Brin announced that Google had “compromised its principles” in abandoning their “Don’t be evil” motto to partner with the Chinese government. Admitting that your critics had you pegged from Day One is well and good, particularly when the criticism levied against Google by Students for a Free Tibet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Initiative. But if agreeing with your critics doesn’t lead you to change your behavior, then you have not yet reclaimed your principles nor made the right decision. From what was said yesterday a policy change seemed unlikely in the near future. Co-founder Larry Page said: “We always consider what to do. But I don’t think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception.” [...] [...] Last June Brin announced that Google had “compromised its principles” in abandoning their “Don’t be evil” motto to partner with the Chinese government. Admitting that your critics had you pegged from Day One is well and good, particularly when the criticism levied against Google by Students for a Free Tibet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Initiative. But if agreeing with your critics doesn’t lead you to change your behavior, then you have not yet reclaimed your principles nor made the right decision. From what was said yesterday a policy change seemed unlikely in the near future. Co-founder Larry Page said: “We always consider what to do. But I don’t think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception.” [...]

]]> http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 SimpleSEM - Google.cn Being Abandoned or Forced to Shut Down? Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:08:00 +0000 http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/06/07/google-founder-says-company-wrong-to-partner-in-censorship-with-the-ccp/#comment-10417 [...] Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently revealed that the company was likely to abandon its China-based search engine Google.cn due to censorship issues. Other sources have expressed the announcement as inevitable, and sources the recent Chinese governments threats to shut the service, less than 6 months after it’s debut. [...] [...] Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently revealed that the company was likely to abandon its China-based search engine Google.cn due to censorship issues. Other sources have expressed the announcement as inevitable, and sources the recent Chinese governments threats to shut the service, less than 6 months after it’s debut. [...]

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