google's selout

well first of all i am extremely shocked at the decision by goolge to agree to such a proposal in the first place. keeping in mind that it is the second biggest technology companyin the UNITED STATES after Microsoft, i would have thought that Google would have folowed its business principles according to many of the democratic practices that stands for the American dream. Google being American should have acted more ethically and rejected this proposal in the first place as it violates the first amendment rights of the very country they exist in. the whole deal sounds as if Google is insecure of its future and accepting such a deal now according to them will only stabalize their position in the market. quiet frankly they are running scared that one of their big competitors would bag this deal and they would eventually lose out in the long run. according to the article written by Thomas Lipscomb, google would have to "actively assist the Chinese government in barring access to thousands of Web sites and search terms that the Chinese feel might destablize its authoritarian government.". This totally shows us that google would go to any extent to make an extra buck or two and would not stand for what is right, that is freedom of speech and Privacy, which is again funny because Google is at loggerheads with the US government on the above issues regarding child pornography. concluding i would just like to say that Google should not cooperate with a government where they do not know the meaning of democracy and should act ethically and refuse to coperate as they are doing with the US government.

siddharth sudhakar