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This 4 page paper answers 3 questions set by the student. The first question outlines the principles that were utilized by Google when setting up a search engine in China; Google.cn. The second question looks at the ethical issues and considers whether or not Google sufficiently protected the human rights of the Chinese users. The last question is an ethical discussion, considering whether or not Google would be supporting ongoing censorship in China by providing services. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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File: TS14_TEgoogch.doc
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for Chinese users. The access to the Chinese version of Google.com was heavily filtered and for a firm that was seeking to organize and provide access to information to the
Chinese population this as a major constraint. The task was also made harder after the Chinese government increased the filtering taking place. By setting up within the Chinese legislative framework
Google was able to exercise more freedom. The law required Google themselves to filter the results. The first principle used saw Google seek to increase transparency of censorship. For other
companies whose results had been filtered the users would simply get a blank page or a broken link. Instead Google would declare that the page had been blocked. The
second principle, which is aligned with the do no evil value of Google was to ensure that Google would not be required to hand over details of people using their
service. Yahoo and Microsoft had both faced issues with the requirements of the government to hand over details of dissidents using their services. Indeed, this lead to Yahoo facing a
legal case in 2007, accused of aiding and abetting torture by supplying the Chinese government with the required information (Information Week, 2007). To avoid this Google choose not to offer
any services where personal data about uses would be gathered such as blogs or emails. If the data were not collected it could not be passed on. Question 2
The ethical perspective is complex. From the perspective of Kant, a deontological approach, Google is bound by duty (Chyssides and Kaler, 1999). If undertaking a service in China there is
a duty to respect and comply with the law. It may be argued that by providing a service within the Chinese nation that was compliant, but with increased transparency they
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