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Sergey Surprise on China
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A surprise guest at TED these days, Sergey spoke openly about Google’s new posture with China. Just before him was a presentation on the Chinese GhostNet worldwide spying network, and Brin mentioned Google was spear-phished in a similar way as the Dalai Lama.
Sergey Brin:
"Things started going downhill, specially soon after the Olympics. There’s been a lot much more blocking going on since then. Also our other sites, YouTube and whatnot, have been blocked. So the scenario really took a turn for the worse."
“We have produced a statement of intent. We intend to cease censoring, and if we can do that, inside the confines of Chinese policy, we’d love to continue Google.cn and our operations there. And if we can not, then we’ll do as significantly as we can, but we don’t want to run a service that’s politically censored. I’m not talking about issues like porn and gambling. Political censorship.”
“Our concentrate has been what’s greatest for the Chinese people. It is not about our particular revenue or profit"
“I don’t think the question of whether or not this is the Chinese government is that important. I believe that the Chinese government has tens of millions of men and women in it. If you appear at the army and the related army, that’s larger than several countries. So even if there have been a Chinese government agent behind it, it might represent a fragment of policy. I consider that there are many people there who have diverse views.”
I started to wonder if the identical could be said of Google. Given that this was impromptu and unscripted, and a delicate corporate PR topic to say the least, I wonder if all of Google management is of the identical mind, right here and in China.