Google: Being Evil

Google caves to Chinese censorship. Like a lot of major media outlets, possibly unexcited about offending the enormogiantus Google, the LA Times regards this as a minor compromise.

At the same time, the Google stand against the Justice Department's data mining appears to be motivated by self-interest in protecting proprietary technology..

Fine, but it does not bode well. They are dancing with dictators, which usually leads to jazz records and reefer. The combined events give us little reason to believe that Google has more than a passing commercial interest in democracy or freedom of information.

I suppose we can look forward to a future of total government monitoring, with full support from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.

So search this, Google:

Google AND Authoritarianism OR fuck AND you.