[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

for collaboration with the Chinese govt. to censor freedom.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html

and this from the company whose motto is "don't be evil." I'm not making this up.

I'm surprised nobody has noted that in our system, for a publicly traded company not being evil means putting shareholders first. That's why, for example, in a merger scenario the board memebers can't worry about people losing their jobs except to the extent such worry ultimately redounds to the shareholders' benefit, as in giving people attractive retirement packages to grease the slide and aviod lawsuits. It's a good system; it works. It's one of the main reasons the U.S. is so rich. Google did the right thing. Shutting itself out of the word's biggest market standing on principle of free speech might have incited a sharehodler class action.