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Googlers bristle at censoring search for China: report

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Google abandoned their do no evil rule a while ago, so its defaulted to embracing evil

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Google going for the $, but if they think the Chinese government will allow them to dominate or even come a distance runners up in the Chinese market in search is fantastical thinking.

If I was a Google investor I would be annoyed. Long term it will be wasted time and money.

A bad decision from a moral point of view and a financial view imo.

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Google leadership knows that they need to be in China, at least in a small way. There doesn't appear to be any method to get around Chinese expectations/laws legally at this point.

Google's very smart, but naive, young workers, most who have never needed to really struggle in life, are full of SJW-types who think the entire world should be the way they want. That's good and bad. The world doesn't work that way until you have enough personal wealth.

sf2k - google management abandoned their don't be evil part of their code of conduit for many years, but many of the googlers see it as a social responsibility beyond what the corporation wants. Odd those same people don't see tracking everything, everyone in the world does online, regardless of platform used, as evil. I've never been able to understand that, but in their minds, it isn't evil.

Google should be in China, but it cannot dominate due to huge cultural gaps and reasonable distrust for "the west". Google also needs to ensure they don't capture too much personal behavior data for the Chinese Govt, since all of it will be turned over, censored, or worse. If they go in knowing that, it should be fine.

Matt- if you have any Lrg ETFs or mutual funds in US stocks, then you own so Alphabet, almost certainly.

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Ah yes, this just makes me reminisce the time when Google "stood up against doing evil".

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Google. Facebook. Greed.

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. If they go in knowing that, it should be fine.

Aren't you concerned about the other possibility?

That Chinese software engineers, working on Chinese Google gain knowledge and access to Google code which enables them to hack into Google platforms and products elsewhere?

I think the bigger the divorce between tier 1 Western tech companies, like Google and China, the better.

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Oh please, Google is filtering, its search is biased for a while ago. What a fuss about because it's doing now in favour of China government too? Is it something new that Big Moneys control major media outlets and crack down on alternative opinions?

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Google should be investing in defeating the Chinese firewall and allowing Chinese free access to information. Google should not be doing the bidding of the unelected Chinese dictatorship.

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Have to agree with SDF in a way. Google gives you what they think you need and want. Other information goes down the list. They also tout their own products over their own products and services over the competition; the EU has shown that; although the EUs weak response is laughable. As long as google gets away with it they'll continue to be evil.

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Have to agree with SDF in a way. Google gives you what they think you need and want. Other information goes down the list. 

Well kind of. They have created an algorithm that attempts to show search results that are relevant to the person searching, based on other people’s patterns, that persons patterns, and the overall algorithm. It’s not like someone sits there and decides what each person is going to see when they make a search.

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