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Mr. Schmidt made the argument he long has, according to these people, namely that it is moral to do business in China in an effort to try to open up the regime. Mr. Brin strenuously argued the other side, namely that the company had done enough trying and that it could no longer justify censoring its search results.

From WSJ via Daring Fireball.

In fact, if you dig deep enough, you may find stories about Brin how he is anti China and anti Chinese government. It is not surprising considering his “origin”.

However, I think Google has gone too far. And I would call Google a big fat liar because their chief legal officer said, years back when Google entered China, it is not for financial interest but to help making China more open. What? Who has a sane mind would actually believe that? Like I said, Google is just trying to gain moral high ground and making itself look good, just a PR strategy.

Essentially, as my previous blog has continued to show, that China has problem in freedom of speech, yes. But for US, it is also very problematic. Some Americans, as I’ve seen, are saying as long as Google filter child porn, it is ok if they don’t filter political content that Chinese government doesn’t like. But hey, you know, Child porn is filtered in the US based on US law. Who do you think Google is not to abide Chinese law to not to filter all the porn?

US has an effective control over speech. Just in a different form and way from China. Google may not block certain content in the US. But essentially it is not heaven and hell difference.

While I would be extremely happy if China stop censoring or blocking websites, I am not on the side of Google. Even less when Google is pretending to be the freedom defender. Remember, Schmidt did not even think privacy is that important on the internet because if you don’t want other people to know what you did, you better not do it. Google is totally far away from a saint company. No matter how hard you try to make you look like one.

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