Comments on: Google gets its mojo back http://www.owen.org/blog/3024 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cynical http://www.owen.org/blog/3024/comment-page-1#comment-5203 cynical Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:34:32 +0000 http://www.owen.org/?p=3024#comment-5203 I doubt Google is basing its decision on "values". It's a business. If operating in China was making Google profits it would stay. This week's Economist provides some commercial reasons as to why Google would decide to leave, and they sound a lot more likely than human rights principles. If anything, if principles are what matter then Google should stay rather than leave China. It offers citizens a (censored) alternative to (heavily censored) Baidu. I doubt Google is basing its decision on “values”. It’s a business. If operating in China was making Google profits it would stay. This week’s Economist provides some commercial reasons as to why Google would decide to leave, and they sound a lot more likely than human rights principles.

If anything, if principles are what matter then Google should stay rather than leave China. It offers citizens a (censored) alternative to (heavily censored) Baidu.

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