...Case Study: “Google in China” University of Phoenix-MGT/448 November 28, 2011 Case Study: “Google in China” This case study will review and address Google’s entry into China. The following topics will be addressed: legal, cultural, and ethical challenges experienced by Google. This case study will also examine the role of China’s government in Google’s decision to operate globally in China as well as the strategic and operational challenges faced by the management team of Goggle with their decision to operate in China. In an effort to enter business in China and gain access to the world’s largest country, Google began offering a Chinese language service in 2000 from operations in the United States. In 2002, the Google site was blocked by the Chinese government and users were redirected to another site (Hill, 2009). Two weeks later, service was restored with no apparent reason or understanding of why the block initially took place or why it was restored. After the Google site was accessible by Chinese users again, politically sensitive sites were still not accessible, which implied the Chinese government was censoring certain sites. Google realized the need to establish operations in China, which finally occurred in 2005, despite challenges and criticism. Challenges Faced by Google There were many legal, cultural, and ethical challenges facing Google when the decision was made to provide services to China. When Google entered China, locations and hosted servers...
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...margin for profit and it outweighed all other issues that may arise. According to the case study on page 154 China is a huge internet market with over 100 million users and still growing. Google decided to use self censorship into order to get into China. Google had to follow Chinese regulations that block some political sensitive topics. Google agreed to do this because of the profit potential, which seems to be an example of the Friedman doctrine which says that the only social responsibility of a company is to increase profits as long as the company stays within the rules of law. All of this does however go against googles mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally acceptable and useful. 2. Do you think Google should have entered China and engaged in self-censorship, given the company’s long-standing mantra “don’t be evil”? Is it better to engage in self-censorship than have the government censor for you? Personally, I don’t think google should have entered China, because to do so they had to engage in self-censorship which compromised the mission that good has made millions on. This is the same as giving on person something that another can’t have. I am both sides of the fence with the second question asked. In one way I think it is better to engage in self-censorship and on...
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... Ph.D From: Ziyue Huang Date: 7/ 27/2014 Re: Google-case, due Monday in class(7-28-14) 1.How does Google’s mission drive strategy at the company? The mission of Google drive it provide an search engine with freedom and fairness to customer, it allow people to gain access to information without business bias and political block. That is why Google decide not let the commercial consideration bias their ranking result, and they provided the useful and correct information for people. 2.Is Google’s stance toward Internet search in China consistent with its mission Google stance in China market is not consistent with their mission, it conflict with the principal of fairness and freedom from Google. Because people could not access politically sensitive sites that appear in Google’s result due to the censorship of Chinese government, Google’s comprise with Chinese censorship had oppose to its principal in order to develop Chinese Market. But the truth is Google quit Chinese Market in 2009, because the leadership members of Google cannot stand the accusations from other organizations and customers, and they didn’t reach an agreement with Chinese government , finally Google quit Chinese market, it still follow principal finally. 3.Do you think that Google should have entered China and engaged in self-censorship, given the company’s long-standing mantra “Don’t be evil”? Is it better to engage in self-censorship than to have the government censor for you. ...
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...Google in China Overview When Google was being created, the designers had one main goal for the company. They wanted to find the best way to organize the entire world’s information in a way to make it easily accessible and useful. Google’s mantra has been “don’t be evil” since day one and continues to be at the core of their company’s business ethics. In 2000, Google decided to begin a Chinese language site for the people of China but based the operations in the United States. Chinese officials blocked the Google website in 2002 and redirected users to a state run government search engine. After one of the co-founders read several books to try to understand why the Chinese government would do this, Google managers decided that the Chinese market, with over 100 million users, was too large not to try to enter again. In 2005, Google opened offices in Beijing and Shanghai and by January 2006, Google unveiled their Chinese homepage for people of China. Google still faced the issue of being censored by the Chinese government and decided to self-censor with the idea of providing users with “the greatest amount of information possible”. Google even includes a bullet if a searched item has been censored. Problem Censoring of information Diagnosis Distinguishing between performing self-censorship or allowing governmental censorship Analysis The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both traditional and new media to avoid potential subversion of its authority...
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...right? Well, that world is called censorship. Censorship is basically a suppression of an individual's creativity. Many books by certain authors with strong themes and ideas are often censored. So are articles with strong opinions. Censorship doesn’t suppress anyone's creativity. It actually does. Many books written by authors like Judy Blume are often censored. Nowadays authors can’t really pour all of their creativity into a book without the fear of it being censored. “Censorship has imposed a serious limitation on a writers’ artistic creativity”(Pen America) The imagination that writers have is awesome, but they can’t express that without putting limits on their material....
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...Sitting in the library, in my hands is my favorite book , when i realized other people's cant have their favorite book in their hands the hard copy .Others can’t read their adored book because the books are banned or censored just because others dislike or disagree .Book banning and censorship has been a big deal all around the states . Google says censorship is “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.” I believe censorship and banned books should not be required in some books for instance Alice and the adventure Wonderland have no reasonable reason to be...
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...Censorship Seri Kamal English 204 Professor Hanan Shanaah April 10, 2011 Censorship When I used to watch cartoons aired on the television, I noticed that sometimes the scenes of the episode aired are repeated, yet the translation is not, making the cartoon look lame since it doesn’t contribute to the story. I asked my big brother about the reason behind that and he said that some scenes may contain some violence, blood, or exposed body parts that the channel, like Spacetoon, wouldn’t want the children to see, so they censor it. Moreover, censorship is not only used in cartoon, it is used also in movies and series to delete sexual content or foul language. In addition, there are many types of censorship, and the types imposed are different from one country to another. Some countries may impose moral censorship; others impose military, political, or religious censorships. Many people would agree on some of the types of censorships enforced in the countries; however, people have the right of freedom of speech and the knowledge behind political issues, so these should not be censored by the country. Censorship is a problem that is known from before World War 1 and it is still a controversial issue with many people who are with the act and laws set regarding censorship and many who are against. Censorship is the restraint over any type of communication like speech regarding many different matters. For example, being against rules set or some political moves that a country...
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...“Censorship is when a work of art expressing an idea which does not fall under current convention is seized, cut up, withdrawn, impounded, ignored, maligned, or otherwise made inaccessible to its audience.” — Ritu Menon, for Women’s World Organisation for Rights, Literature, and Development Censorship is a global phenomenon. In recent times, there has been repeated news of something getting banned somewhere in the world for reasons that seem unreasonable to many while a necessity to the rest. In India, specially, censorship exists in media industry. Each country and each culture censors the media in one way or the other. Government across the globe have used several religious arguments...
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...tablets and laptops children everywhere can view obscenity in the matter of seconds. With ad’s displaying sexy woman or men only heightens the curiosity of child. With an internet connection pornographic matter can be accessed with a click of a button. Consequently, it is essential to acknowledge the fact that the pornography industry is growing and expanding day by day. A good number of internet sites on Google display pornographic material. The modern controversy on whether pornography should be government-censored or not could be attributed to the fact that the internet is so much saturated with the obscene matter. On the other hand, different people hold different views on pornography, for instance, others take it as a form of entertainment, whereas others maintain that it is immoral. As a result, various arguments have been raised that advocate for the need of the government to regulate the consumption as well as the production of obscene matter. This paper aims to present significant views on the impact of pornography on the society and the need for government censorship. How long has pornography existed? Pornography in at all shapes and forms have been around for centuries. In an Article called “Sex and sensibility at the British Museum.” By David Gaimster states,...
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...Hajimusa Nazirov Course: International Business Data: 07.04.2013 Google in China Problem statement- The first I want to give some information about Google. Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits derive from AdWords. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its stake. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil". In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California. Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobileoperating system, and of the browser-only Google Chrome OS for a specialized type of netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners major...
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...COURSE: Introduction to Media Ethics & Law (DPC 1209) LECTURER: Leslie Sobers DATE: 26th April, 2016 GROUP MEMBERS: * Aaliyah Callender-1021557 * Rudolph Daly-1021888 * Samuel Gillis-1010622 * Leon Griffin-1021868 * Royden James-1019726 * Krystal Kennedy-1021125 * Rondella Legay-1022111 * Merissa Prescott-1021456 * Danielle Swain-1007423 Should Freedom of Expression extend to Pornography? The fight continues from institutions to focus groups, media houses and the press, individuals from the streets to the highest of Law making bodies around the world and even in Guyana are fighting for freedom of expression. Everyone seems to have a desire to express themselves freely and without interference, to say what’s on their minds and how they feel on specific matters that concerns them. In addition, laws are also made to protect one’s right to express oneself freely, but to extend this lawful right to pornography is the worse decision that can ever be made by any constitution or law. The Williams Committee defined pornography as sexually explicit representation which has the function or intention of sexually arousing its audience, and according to the Merriam Webster dictionary pornography can be in the form of movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement. Pornography appears to have few friends in high places. Governments generally censor...
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...Cathcart 1 Ciera Cathcart Period 0 Mrs.Allan Honors English 28 April 2014 The Hidden Outlier Truth Lies, fairness and kindness is the reality of all americans no matter what color, race, or who you are. Nobody wants to be singled out ever.The treatment of women has always been a hard subject in society and many subjects of novels. Walker dramatically shows realistic imagery, as she reels the reader in by conditions black women put up with and what life can be like when you are abused. In The Color Purple ,by Alice Walker, tackles the subject of sexism in communties. The first amendment does issue the fact that women's rights should be their and that everyone has the freedom, and that we all have quality The Color Purple written by Alice Walker should not be banned, through various arguments. Some including that it is an honest depiction of African-American life in the early 20th century, it addresses child abuse issues, rape, that still need to be addressed in our society, and because the freedom of speech is a constitutional right. The Color Purple was banned due to explicit language, sexual content, and racist stereotypes. Although, you would think the banning of the book is very difficult or hard but it is actually simple. There are two different ways to get a book removed, either banning or challenging. Banning a book is the removal no matter what. A Challenged book is when its an attempt to remove...
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...Yahoo! and Microsoft MSN, had each entered the Chinese market as ISPs years earlier, agreeing to self-censor. In addition, escalating competition from Chinese search engine Baidu.com was quickly eroding Google. com’s Chinese market share: between 2002 and 2007, Baidu.com’s market share increased from a mere 3%1to a dominant 58%2 Also, during the same time there were cases of privacy breach in China by the companies which further made it difficult for Google to come to a decision. . In early 2006, just as Google was planning to launch Google.cn, it became known that Yahoo! China had turned over private user e-mail data to the Chinese government and that this had led to the ten-year, eight-year, and four-year prison sentences of Chinese cyber dissidents Shi Tao, Li Zhi, and Jiang Lijun. In addition, Microsoft had recently shut down the blog of famous Chinese political blogger Michael Anti (a penname for Zhao Jing) at the request of the Chinese government4. Clearly any decision made by Google to enter China would have to take into account concerns about user privacy and government surveillance The criticism: Google’s decision to self-censor Google.cn attracted significant ethical criticism at the time. The company’s motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” and prior to entering China, Google had successfully set itself apart from other technology giants, becoming a company trusted by millions of users to protect and store...
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...Re: Google in China Background In 1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University graduates that developed a search-engine technology to find and organize information on the Web; their mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, this meant that they wanted to provide easy access to as much information as possible, to the greatest number of people without censoring. Two years later, in 2000, Google.com offered search options in Chinese, but the content was being filtered by the Chinese government which promoted that, if foreign enterprises wanted to operate inside their territory they must do it according to their laws, and this included certain topics that are considered offensive. The company wanted to provide easy and fast access to as much information as possible, so by 2006 Google launched Google.cn, the China based Web site. The content was still being filtered, but in the attempt to follow the company’s principles Google tried to rationalize this differences. Because censorship is a non negotiable issue, executives chose to bet on China’s citizens and internet users. Even when the search results were censored, a statement appeared to inform the user that the information was not available, meaning that they had to look for it somewhere else. In 2009, revenues from Google’s workforce in China were approximately 1% of corporate revenues, and held a market share of 31% compared with 64%...
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...Does Censorship Help or Harm a Country’s Citizens? Lucas J. Fong AP Seminar/2 Mrs. Ohmart Censorship Censorship is used to prohibit “unacceptable” information brought to us on any media platform, however, what it isn’t supposed to censor is the truth. Government controlled censorship is ultimately harmful to a country’s citizens. So why do some countries do it more than others? Taking a look at censorship in China, Germany, and South Africa will provide more insight to the issue. A nation’s government should not have the right to decide what important information can be shown and what important information can’t. One thing is clear though, it is that important current events, historic events, and some necessary information should be accessible to the general public in order to help the country. In South Africa, “Interior Minister Theophilus Ebenhaezar Dönges, son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, [by] law, [can] ban anything he considers "indecent, obscene or… objectionable," and no court can overrule him.” (Times Magazine, 1951) Although this is source is old it is still alive today just with different names. The Interior Minister can and does take full advantage of this law, as South Africa is one of many African countries that has censorship issues, and for obvious reasons. The Interior Minister uses this law to protect and restrict important data from the public. This results in the harm of South Africa as they remain uninformed and uneducated about certain things they...
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