Why Google is still ethical
Sure, Google has decided to censor the Chinese version of its search engine. But there are some key differences between this and Yahoo’s shenanigans:
- Nobody has been put in jail or otherwise abused
- Google is doing nothing that wouldn’t have happened anyway had they not complied – after all, pre-agreement, Google was being filtered by the Great Firewall
- If people accessed these websites via Google then the Great Firewall would more than likely detect it, and punish the users, so by removing them from the search results Google is helping to protect its Chinese users from persecution