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Offline CrAz3D

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And people say Google isnt evil
« on: February 19, 2008, 05:34:54 pm »
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331106,00.html

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Censorship in China and the US?  Lame

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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 06:22:40 pm »
I think you're missing a step in your argument..

1. Google does censorship
2. ???
3. Google is evil

Do you really consider censorship to be "evil"?

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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 06:43:21 pm »
When it censors political opinion and investigative reporting ... yeah

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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 06:44:46 pm »
How so?

Note that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I'm just tired of people calling every questionable decision made by Google, "evil"

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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 12:21:14 am »
When it censors political opinion and investigative reporting ... yeah
I fail to see how dropping his dinky website from a news aggregator is censorship in any way.

And as for censorship in china, google has two options:
1) censor what the government wants
2) do no business in china

The "moral" thing to do would be no business there, but google wants to make moneys.
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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 12:33:09 am »
Google is just like every other company on the face of the planet.
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Re: And people say Google isnt evil
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 05:38:26 pm »
And the news site is listed again.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331469,00.html

suspicious?  I think so