Loadingdata | Daniel Bos

Dear Google,

Thank you for decid­ing, in your impe­r­ial wis­dom, what is good for a fifth (http://ow.ly/1pzeG) of the world’s inter­net pop­u­la­tion! Although I am curi­ous about the rea­son why you decided to pull out of China, could it be the inabil­ity to gain a notable mar­ket share? (http://ow.ly/1pzfh) Obvi­ously it can’t be the pre­tence of oppos­ing cen­sor­ing, since you don’t have any prob­lems with that in other mar­kets (e.g. Ger­many: http://ow.ly/1pzfP, the USA: http://ow.ly/1pzgg, the UK: http://ow.ly/1pzgH)

I sus­pect the move of your ser­vice from China to Hong Kong (which has more relaxed laws on polit­i­cally sen­si­tive con­tent) is a move to pro­voke China in block­ing Google alto­gether, after which you can grace­fully retreat out of China.

Is this really the way to “facil­i­tate access to infor­ma­tion for the entire world” (http://ow.ly/1pzh6) But we already knew that too was only a farce, since you have been block­ing entire coun­tries from using your ser­vices for a long time (e.g. Google Code, and even Google Chrome: http://ow.ly/1pzhs) But of course that is because all Cuban are ter­ror­ists, right?

Dear Google, I do hope you will swal­low your pride, and real­ize that your Amer­i­can, impe­ri­al­is­tic ideas aren’t nec­es­sar­ily the best for the entire world. I hope that you will return to pro­vide your ser­vice in China, abid­ing the local laws, which apart from some polit­i­cal quirks, aren’t that unfair.

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