Recently, much has been made of Google agreeing to censor some of the websites that are displayed from certain searches within China. China is obviously a Communist and conservative country. However, Google is an American company, and it abides by American laws. I think the move by Google to agree to China's laws was a bit of weakness by Google, because they folded to the power of China.
The freedom of information that the Internet offers is a serious threat to the primitive ways of Communist nations. However, if they are not open to reform then they should take it upon themselves to work and censor the Internet within their borders. They should not pressure outside companies to conform to their ways, and when Google was confronted by China they had a great opportunity to reject censoring. Of course they did not, and only the people at Google can tell you if they regret that decision.
Although, within the many companies that Google has been buying up there may be some negative feelings toward the parent company decision. When YouTube who is owned by Google came under attack by the government of Thailand, because the government said that YouTube was displaying videos that offended the country. Google said the videos would be removed, however YouTube refused to pull any videos. The Thai government even made reference to China asking YouTube why it was no problem to comply for China, but when a smaller weaker country is asking for cooperation they are not getting it.
I commend the people at YouTube for making a stand on the censorship issue, especially when the website is in more then enough trouble over copyright law suits. They could have simply went along with Thailand, but they decided it was time to make a stand.
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