Reward for “Moral”?
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Summary:
As we predicted in Jan, it was almost 100% centainty for Google to retreat from mainland China after they slashed Chinese government without reserving any solution for both sides. A lot people applaud this “suiside committment” behaviour and called Google as a “Moral” company. However, “business is business”, isn’t it? Don Corleone is a hero of a lot [...]
Read the rest of this entry »As we predicted in Jan, it was almost 100% centainty for Google to retreat from mainland China after they slashed Chinese government without reserving any solution for both sides. A lot people applaud this “suiside committment” behaviour and called Google as a “Moral” company. However, “business is business”, isn’t it? Don Corleone is a hero of a lot Americans although he is a gang. Let’s face the reality. From any business related perspective, Google just made a stupid decision – the next time they fully go back to China will be the time when the Red Army finished ruling the country. Do you think this is gonna happenning any soon?
Today Google official redirect its www.google.cn to http://www.google.com.hk/. Right after the announcement, the stock markets‘ reaction was quite funny – Was that the reward for “Moral”? I would rather remind you another Godfather’s quote.
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You missed the point, Dude. They made a moral decision, not a business decision. It will be China’s loss, not Google’s. Why should they help prop up the communist mafia?
Let’s back to the ‘Moral’. A prest won’t retreat from Middle East like Afhan because 90% of people there are not following Jesus. The same, once Google made decision to step in China in 06, why do they make such a decision today in the same environment ? As a f-Chinese saying goes: ” A hooker wanna claim being a virgin” …
I beleive that Google’s decision is droven by the government somehow. I respect this company. But “Moral” is a relative concept – Today you can blaim China manipulate info (censorship), but from China’s standpoint, a hi-tech company in US soil can manipulate info against its “enermy” any time. Isn’it? “Do not evil” because it is too easy for them to do evil! Frankly, I do not think Google lost sth in the short term – 80% of traffic on Google.cn were from Google.com; But in this issue, Google is pretty much doing sth on behalf of US government, is it? and btw, Do you really think that out of 1.3b Chinese people, everyone are busying on searching the information that are censored by the government everyday? I do not think so… if Google is a “Moral” company, I am more liekly agree with their proposition in 06, – what they did is sort of “better than nothing” .
Goldman Sachs lifted its Baidu.com price target to $675 from $575, following Google’s move to redirect its China site to its Hong Kong site. The broker, expecting the Hong Kong site to be at best slow if not unavailable, estimates that Baidu may capture between 33% and 75% of Google.cn traffic.
That’s not how things work. Why would the U.S. government be involved? One would think that if Google was a malevolent force that they and the U.S. government would conspire to gather data about Chinese citizens based on their searches. So they would stay to aid the evil purposes of the U.S government. But that’s not what happened.
China’s government is evil and oppressive and Google refused to do their bidding. I think that’s a moral choice.
Other than originally agreeing to censorship imposed by the Chinese government, can you tell me one thing Google has done that is “evil?”
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