The Good, the Bad and the Google

The Good, the Bad and the Google: “?Don?t be evil.? It?s been Google?s informal corporate motto for years; and for the most part, people have been willing to take it at its word. In January, things changed. Google announced that the new Chinese version of its site, Google.cn, would comply with Beijing policy by removing politically sensitive websites from search results. Just like that, the company that is thought of by so many as the very embodiment of the information-wants-to-be-free ethic found itself widely accused of abetting the suppression of political dissent.”