Negotiating power is everything, and western democracies and their private and corporate citizens have absolutely none compared to autocratic regimes.
Negotiating power is everything, and western democracies and their private and corporate citizens have absolutely none compared to autocratic regimes.
Google has no reason to hold its head high.
Sure, no one is spotless, but as it stands it's Microsoft that runs a censored search engine (Bing in China) and Apple that handed over its Chinese users iCloud encryption keys.
To be fair, you could say Apple and Microsoft had their reasons for doing so (as people including the Chinese themselves have argued). But why all the focus on Google then? Is the idea of a Chinese search engine (which has since been cancelled) worse than actually running a censored search engine such as Bing China?
It's gotten to the point where people commonly think Google is cozier with Chinese authorities than other companies, when if anything it's the opposite. That seems perverse.
But, yes, Microsoft and Apple are equally, if not more, deserving of shame.