February 16, 2006

Being Evil

Google Code of Conduct:

Our informal corporate motto is "Don't be evil." We Googlers generally relate those words to the way we serve our users – as well we should. But being "a different kind of company" means more than the products we make and the business we're building; it means making sure that our core values inform our conduct in all aspects of our lives as Google employees.

Congress grills Internet execs on China policies:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers lashed out at Google Inc. and other prominent Internet companies on Wednesday, with one Democrat questioning "how your corporate leadership sleeps at night" because of the companies' alleged complicity in human rights abuses by the Chinese government.

"Your abhorrent activities in China are a disgrace. I simply do not understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night," said Rep. Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on a House International Relations subcommittee on human rights.

A bill to be introduced by Republican Chris Smith would make it illegal for Google or other US companies to continue to abet repressive regimes like Communist China.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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1 Cool... does the same apply to companies doing business in Saudi Arabia too? /rhetorical

Posted by: Ariya at February 16, 2006 12:25 AM (uxW3N)

2 As to how they sleep at night, what was traded years ago in the name of "good business" is how. Moral fiber is a term known to have very short and ever changing limits. The money is our God like no other theme, simply ID's the whore for what it is and now you know the price of Google's services----today.

Posted by: forest hunter at February 16, 2006 12:40 AM (Fq6zR)

3 I used to work for one of those companies. Now, I sleep well at night.

Posted by: Russ at February 16, 2006 12:58 AM (utsLN)

4 Ariya do you always answer JawaReport posts with a scatter gun? It isn't anything to do with Corporations doing business in foreign countries, but the ethics of the things they do to stay there: Yahoo provided electronic records to Chinese authorities that led to an eight-year prison sentence for writer Li Zhi in 2003. Smith used a laptop to show how a search for "Tiananmen Square" on www.google.com turned up images of tanks and carnage from the 1989 army killings while entering the same term in the new Chinese site led to pictures of smiling tourists. Less of course you are citing a specific event with a U.S Corporation and Saudi Arabia that you forgot to reference?

Posted by: dave at February 16, 2006 01:12 AM (CcXvt)

5 I'd much rather a business regulate itself than by these moralizing hypocrites but no matter, there is no principle.

Posted by: Javapuke at February 16, 2006 02:12 AM (VOGUE)

6 Self regulation requires ethics, and only works when there are no liberals involved in running a business, because they have none, and see no problem with helping jail innocent people for a buck or two. Every day their own actions show that liberals should all be ground up for dog food.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 16, 2006 05:14 AM (0yYS2)

7 I don't know about that, Maxie. I would rather my dog eat gar or carp rather than ground-up liberal. Of course, that's just me, and my dog is a Golden Retriever, and she is pretty particular about what she eats. Ground-up liberal would be perfect for fertilizer!

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 16, 2006 10:26 AM (rUyw4)

8 Maxie Some of us care a lot about our pets!

Posted by: hondo at February 16, 2006 05:53 PM (fyKFC)

9 Don't be evil? All that's missing is "Be good" and a flower pot! Both childish and stupid. Maybe they believe you can't be evil unless your wearing a Darth Vader mask and a nazi armband. Does leave open an immense gray area, doesn't it? - for goggle to play word games with.

Posted by: hondo at February 16, 2006 05:58 PM (fyKFC)

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