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Re:Google is just an amoral menace by kragen on Sunday April 05, 2009 @03:44PM (#547661)
Google is not amoral in that sense; it's an ideologically-driven organization consisting of people, led by leaders who are also people. Those people make moral judgments, and, contrary to the claims in the article, a great deal of Google's path has been shaped by those moral decisions, including the decision to engage in China. (I think they made the wrong decision there, but I might be wrong, and in any case the moral calculus figured quite explicitly in their discussions.)
Re:Google is just an amoral menace by derefr on Sunday April 05, 2009 @05:09PM (#547751)
You forgot one of the major parties to the organization--the shareholders, who are, as far as I understand economics, incapable for some reason of being "ideologically driven." The shareholders pushed for China. I'm not sure Google could have said no.
Re:Google is just an amoral menace by kragen on Sunday April 05, 2009 @07:00PM (#547877)
You may not be familiar with Google's unusual share class structure, but it insulates them from pressure from outside shareholders to a very unusual extent.