Comments on: No More Googly Eyes http://chrislott.org/story/no-more-googly-eyes/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: chris http://chrislott.org/story/no-more-googly-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-521 chris Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:56:48 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/no-more-googly-eyes/#comment-521 But which is Google doing? It seems a semantic difference: they are offering search and the censorship is being enforced by the government... same result whether they are given the list to censor or it's done for them. At worst they are not helping to change difficult circumstances. At least their search tells the citizens of China when something has been removed, which Chinese search does not. I'm not going to crucify them for that. But if I did, I would need to do the same for all the other companies that have acted similarly. So, goodbye Yahoo and Microsoft too (among MANY others). But which is Google doing? It seems a semantic difference: they are offering search and the censorship is being enforced by the government… same result whether they are given the list to censor or it’s done for them. At worst they are not helping to change difficult circumstances. At least their search tells the citizens of China when something has been removed, which Chinese search does not. I’m not going to crucify them for that.

But if I did, I would need to do the same for all the other companies that have acted similarly. So, goodbye Yahoo and Microsoft too (among MANY others).

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://chrislott.org/story/no-more-googly-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Stephen Downes Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:50:08 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/no-more-googly-eyes/#comment-520 There is a big difference between: - Google offering services to China, which would be available to all, except that they are censored by the Chinese government - offering services where the censorship is undertaken by Google itself In the first, you are doing your best, under difficult circumstances. In the second, you are yourself the cause of the difficult circumstances. There is a big difference between:

- Google offering services to China, which would be available to all, except that they are censored by the Chinese government

- offering services where the censorship is undertaken by Google itself

In the first, you are doing your best, under difficult circumstances. In the second, you are yourself the cause of the difficult circumstances.

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://chrislott.org/story/no-more-googly-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-514 D'Arcy Norman Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:28:11 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/no-more-googly-eyes/#comment-514 Yeah, that was my take on it, too... Easy to knee-jerk and say Google Is Evil! but, the alternative is worse. Some information is better than no information. Yeah, that was my take on it, too… Easy to knee-jerk and say Google Is Evil! but, the alternative is worse. Some information is better than no information.

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