Google CEO on censoring: 'We did an evil scale'

Macworld ^ | 01/30/2006 | Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service

[kjo]

This is how we accomodate evil, one small step at a time.

[Delta 21]

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo!

Linked in deference to dialup users (177k):

http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/opinion/Google12606.jpg

[SlowBoat407]

“We concluded that although we weren’t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all,”

Translation: “We concluded that although we were providing a product that served the interests of a murderous band of thugs who have enslaved an entire population, we'd better get in there and make some money while we could (hey, didja see our Chinese New Year logo??), since other people are taking greater risks than we are to bring information in from the rest of the world."

[n230099]

Yes let's see; in this hand millions of dead people and in the other hand $$$$$$$. Like the old expression says. Now we know what you are and we're only debating the price.

[fooman]

• making the ovens

[neodad]

“We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil,” he said, referring to the company’s famous “don’t be evil” creed.

That's why people are bad a judging evil. Evil is or isn't. It doesn't work on a sliding scale.

[fooman]

google making the ovens...

[The Red Zone]

Is Google furnishing anything "good" to China that anyone else is not.

[CatoRenasci]

Once more, the banality of evil is overwhelming.

And they wonder why some people find the stench overpowering?

[Chickensoup]

“We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil,” he said, referring to the company’s famous “don’t be evil” creed.


Yeah, it would be really EVIL if the Chinese built a competing search site...

[SlowBoat407]

From the first page of an image search on Google.cn using "911":

[toddlintown]

Full of sh*t excuse from a lib outfit.

[Wolfie]

I wonder if Wal-Mart even bothered with any kind of scale.

[SlowBoat407]

On the bright side, the chinese google still links to Free Republic!

[Cvengr]

Freedom without authority is anarchy. Authority without freedom is tyranny.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"I'm old enough to remember when Google was a decent search engine."

[conservativeharleyguy]

“We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil,”.....

This about as good a definition of moral relativism as one will ever find. Who raised these idiots?

[conservativecorner]

He's more full of shite' than a Christmas Turkey BUMP!