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I wouldn't try Minardi though :(
Remember this about them - they won't help the US Government stop child porn by handing over search information BUT they will hand over search info that the Chinese goverment is using against dissidents.
In the US there are other laws, and over there Google was willing to fight the government because they knew they stood a chance.
Our informal corporate motto is "Don't be evil." We Googlers generally relate those words to the way we serve our users – as well we should. But being "a different kind of company" means more than the products we make and the business we're building; it means making sure that our core values inform our conduct in all aspects of our lives as Google employees.
So, their "core values" aka "Don't be evil" gets tossed out when money comes into the picture? By some accounts people are being imprisonned because of some of their searches using Google in China.
It should be "Don't be evil - unless the bottom line is in question"
Personally I detest child porn and my first reaction is that I would like Google to help find users of it. At the other hand, I find it hard to be a 100% sure of that. Where do you draw the line?
I had no idea Google has developed a special filter for the Chinese goverment, making it impossible for the Chinese people to visit particular sites. I dislike such actions.
However, the following link gives an interesting view on this:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5702
I understood that Yahoo acted even more dubious helping the Chines Goverment to arrest several dissidents.
@ RJ : I work in a rehabilitation centre (I think that is how you call it)
Tough one. Once the door is open to any form of sneeking and peeking the direction that takes is difficult to control - even to monitor. However the fact that Google, as well as Yahoo and probably others who want to do business with China, will not bat an eye at the requests to control the search results that could lead to people being imprisioned for researching democracy or Christianity or Falung Gong BUT will balk at the idea of turning over the same technology and information that could lead to the arrest of people involved in child porn or human tracking is just plain wrong.
The article you cite is interesting no doubt - however tyhe fact that YOU refer to a CATO institute work to back your point is even more interesting.
That I referred to an article of a CATO institute - I never heard of Cato before - is due to the fact that I used Google (....) to find out something about the background of your statement.
And isn't it beautiful that when you Google "mcsf " the first lines to be found are.....
As someone once said "what the British need to remeber is that the real enemy are the French" (not the Germans)
That same train of thought brings me to the word you don't want to hear. Hypocracy. Yep bud that is the word. You seem to think that only the "right" is into making money. Wrong answer. George Soros - ultra "progressive" and one of the very rich in the world. Makes alot of money shorting currencies around the globe. Does not care if his actions help or hurt - it funds his coffers and with that he goes after his political opponents. Google has this "no evil" policy but they are in bed with a government that is squashing the culture of Tibet on a systematic basis.
No both the left and the right have hipocrites. Hell, I probably am in that class as I use Google now and again.
Nice try at a jab re "MCSF". Water off a ducks ass to me.
Checkmate.
[Edited on 1-4-0606 by bernie]