Category: So Google have decided to take on China, eh?
Larry and Sergey have apparently decided to take the Party handbook on good PR and government relations, tear pages off and use them as toilet paper.
A few days ago, the Chinese government allegedly hacked into the Gmail accounts of local human rights activists in an attempt to access some rather sensitive information. Doing a U-turn on their previous cooperative policies, Google turned off their search censorship bots and posted what was basically a “F*ck You, China!” post on their official blog.
Now the fight is on, and a number of Chinese citizens (knowing something that the rest of the world doesn’t) have already started marking Google’s gravesite.
Ok, so now the big question that every cynical MBA wants to ask is: is Google really doing this as a matter of good corporate governance, or, seeing as they’re already losing market share, is this really all about money?
I’m not going to answer that – rather, I’m putting up this blog post to say, and this is in a very nice way, “Tough Sh*t, Google.”
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