Google's Evil Scale Apparently Now Includes Censoring Videos In Thailand
from the funny-how-that-works dept
Wondering why Google's board of directors recommended to shareholders that they vote down a proposal that would require Google to adhere to a set of standards against censoring the internet? Perhaps you just need to look to the situation in Thailand, where Google's YouTube property was lamely banned earlier this week over a single video that mocked that country's king. Apparently, the country is now getting ready to ditch the ban, but only because Google has promised to help them censor the video, not by pulling it down, but by making it inaccessible to viewers from Thailand. I guess on Google's famous "evil scale", censoring one video to make the rest of YouTube available is less evil than having no YouTube at all in Thailand.
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This is not collaboration
Their purpose is to make information freely available, and if they have limitations imposed upon them by the local government, it is certainly better than nothing at all! And it may give them enough of a taste that they demand full internet freedom and overthrow those oppressive government restrictions.
And do you really think that China's government would give a damn if Google refused to do business there? Why would they care?
Pro vs con, Google should absolutely do business in China.
Companies such as Boeing that build weapons should not. Lumping them in the same category is foolish.
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