Comments on: Google CEO responds to China setback http://www.my-life-in-china.com/online-marketing/google-ceo-responds-to-china-setback/ China SEO Company. Internet Advertising. Web Design. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:50:50 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jana http://www.my-life-in-china.com/online-marketing/google-ceo-responds-to-china-setback/comment-page-1/#comment-12329 Jana Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:28:07 +0000 http://www.my-life-in-china.com/online-marketing/google-ceo-responds-to-china-setback/#comment-12329 In my mind he is right by saying “The internet is the strongest force for individual self-expression ever invented,” but what about that it was at their “peril” that governments attempted to impose blackouts on media such as TV, internet, radio and mobile phones?! I would say Google, among other companies, has set up structures to support government censorship. As Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo notes, “It is not our job to fix the Chinese government.” I agree. But it is sort of spectacularly, willfully oblique to simultaneously condemn the Chinese government, support government censorship, deny responsibility for censorship, and most spectacularly, in Google’s’s case, criticize the efficacy of government-imposed censorship. That internet censorship cannot be complete, and that such strategies are “terrible” and doomed, does not alleviate the complicity of companies and governments trying to tamp down free expression. Certainly governments, but also to a very large extent Google and other internet platforms, bear responsibility for not only maintaining the internet as a space for uncensored expression, but upholding principles of net neutrality, access, and free expression in the face of censorious individuals, movements, organizations, and regimes. If you wanna read more about this comment, wanna dicuss about it or just wanna reply, join our blog: http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/skirting-responsibility-google-ceo-mark-schmidt-on-internet-censorship/#more-3220 Jana (member of NCAC) In my mind he is right by saying “The internet is the strongest force for individual self-expression ever invented,” but what about that it was at their “peril” that governments attempted to impose blackouts on media such as TV, internet, radio and mobile phones?! I would say Google, among other companies, has set up structures to support government censorship. As Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo notes, “It is not our job to fix the Chinese government.” I agree. But it is sort of spectacularly, willfully oblique to simultaneously condemn the Chinese government, support government censorship, deny responsibility for censorship, and most spectacularly, in Google’s’s case, criticize the efficacy of government-imposed censorship.

That internet censorship cannot be complete, and that such strategies are “terrible” and doomed, does not alleviate the complicity of companies and governments trying to tamp down free expression. Certainly governments, but also to a very large extent Google and other internet platforms, bear responsibility for not only maintaining the internet as a space for uncensored expression, but upholding principles of net neutrality, access, and free expression in the face of censorious individuals, movements, organizations, and regimes.

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