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Originally Posted by Chojin
If Chinese people are to use Google at all, they have to comply with Chinese government regulations regarding the internet. Given the option of no Google or limited Google, they chose limited. I don't understand why that is inconsistent with their mantra. Would the less evil option have been to not let Chinese people use Google at all?
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Yahoo is working with them, too. The Chinese aren't being deprived of this information without Google. Yahoo has already proven to be pretty eager to make money off of an oppressive regime.
Google didn't want to be squeezed out of that market, so they took what they could get. Again, I don't think they should be critized necessarily for doing this. They're a business. But their real mantra should maybe be "be unevil as possibele, while still making money." Or, as Eric Schmidt said himself,
"we did an evil scale."
They could've passed on the cash, taken an ethical stand, and boycotted doing business with the Chinese. Others have decided to do this, partly because the Chinese have proven to be bad investment partners.
This was totally about capitalism, and they shouldn't pretend otherwise.