Question

. What immediate and longer-term issues does Google’s censorship decision create? 2. Prior to the launch of Google.cn, what factors should Google have considered in reaching their decision to comply with Chinese government censorship laws? 3. Assess Dr. Schmidt’s statement, "We actually did an evil scale and decided that not to serve at all was worse evil." Was Google being evil?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

1. The censorship decision brought about a great number of questions. As the stock of the company decreased, quite a number of protestors went to the company's headquarters in california to stage a protest. 50,000 letters or thereabout was sent to googles CEO for the company's decision to comply with information censoring.

The immediate issues they faced was great criticism

The long term effects is that they became enablers of the many harsh laws in the Chinese country.

2. Google should have first evaluated and checked the ethical and logical costs of their decision. The business opportunity open to them should not have being one and only consideration. The company also has social responsibilities too which they neglected.

3. From my point of view, I would say google was being evil. One of its goals and mission statement is information accessibility universally. The turned a blind eye to this goal in this scenario by censoring search engines