Regaining moral high ground?

[Forever Sunshine]

BEIJING – Google has started telling users in China when web searches contain keywords that could be tracked by the country's keen-eyed censors, one of the company's top officials announced.

“Starting today we’ll notify users in mainland China when they enter a keyword that may cause connection issues,” Alan Eustace, a Senior Vice President for Google, wrote on the company's Inside Search blog on Thursday. “By prompting people to revise their queries, we hope to reduce these disruptions and improve our user experience from mainland China.”

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[lonewolf]

Now, that was interesting.

[Royston Vasey]

BEIJING – Google has started telling users in China when web searches contain keywords that could be tracked by the country's keen-eyed censors, one of the company's top officials announced.

Good for Google (in this particular instance). Though, IMO, there exists a bigger picture and wider considerations to this snippet of information - i.e. why is Google operating in a country that has such an abysmal human rights record in the first place? - financial gain (greed, perhaps) comes to mind. However, the aforementioned pre-eminent search engine provider is certainly not alone in having such dubious, foreign-type dealings. Many Western companies deal with 'China'; I suppose it's a truism that a leopard cannot change its spots.


Go well.