Recently China and Google got into a spat with the international company announcing their withdrawal from the Chinese market if they’re unable to produce uncensored search results.
The international stage has been largely positive to Google. With support from Yahoo! and human rights advocates like Wei Jingsheng, and Amnesty International lauding the difficult financial choice.
Even tech pundits feel they can throw their 2 cents into the fray (why not, here we sit), sometimes to poor results. Ron Enderle is quoted in the Bangkok post, “Google was in a no-win situation,” Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle told AFP. “The choices they’ve got are all bad, but this one allows them to claim the high ground at home by standing up to evil China.”
I whole heartedly disagree with government censure, or generally any of the practices that China has been accused of, but declaring the whole of China as evil? It’s too slapdash saying an entire sub-continent is evil, when we disagree with their government, not the people.
For declaring an entire group of people as evil, I’m impelled to give Ron Enderle the Jackass of the week placard. May he hang it with dignity.
Tags: Bangkok post, China, Google, Jackass of the week, Ron Enderle
