Well, before Google China was there, Chinese people could access it too. Would google be blamed if their DNS records were available in China and China did not block any of their IPs?
I'm sure every company wants to make money, wherever it is possible. This is the difference between the 5 and 6 billion people we were talking, 20% more of existing users. But this is not all: Assuming that Google did hire people in China to work on their Chinese servers, should Google fire all of them because the government didn't cope up with their ideals of a uncensored internet? If you were the head of operations in Google China, would you cease operations or would you continue with the compliance? Next, If every country asked Google to do some thing for compliance, then according to you they should shut down operations in all those countries and should totally get blocked on that country's ISP. Don't you think it's better to be somewhat-censored than be totally cut-off at all? Whom are the governments kidding anyway? There are zillions of encrypted, open proxies who have dynamic IPs, dynamic DNS names; So they'll block a whole /8 subnet, eh? And if government people think they can get away with passing a law and asking the *-search engine guys to be responsible for their policies, I'm sure that there is something fundamentally wrong with them (Gov). On 10/28/07, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 06:24:59PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: > > On 10/27/07, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:23:37PM -0700, David Mack wrote: > > > > Hi Theo, > > > > > > > > My name is David Mack, and I am a recruiter for the > Google.comengineering > > > > team, a dynamic, challenging and fun group, which is responsible for > our > > > > Google website, from start to finish. > > > > > > > > While doing a search for a specific skill set, I found your contact > > > > information on-line and I wanted to contact you to see if you may be > > > > interested in learning more about opportunities with us. You seem > like > > > you > > > > might be a great fit here at Google. > > > > > > I was already contacted by Google but I didn't take the offer. > > > I come from a former communist country (Czech Republic) and we had an > > > oppressive communist regime there 1948-1989. Information was censored > > > exactly > > > the same way how you Google do it in China now and it was done to > sustain > > > the > > > oppressive regime and people suffered - some innocent people were even > > > killed > > > by the regime for their opinions. I spent my whole childhood in this > > > regime. So > > > I already know this is very wrong from my own first-hand experience. I > > > don't > > > want to work in a company which does things that I consider gravely > > > morally > > > wrong. > > > > > > Another reason was that I didn't find a really appealing job offer in > your > > > list. > > > > > > CL > > > > > > Blame the censorship on legal compliance, hence the governments. > > Google always had an option to not do business there if it couldn't be > done > without censorship. Who cares if they cover 6 billions or 5 billions > people? > They won't go bankrupt because of that. But they decided this way so I > think one > should blame them. > > CL< > > > > Lots of companies do stuff with the information they mine though.
