{"id":561,"date":"2006-01-30T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2006-01-30T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:46:39","slug":"google_gets_midevil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/google_gets_midevil\/","title":{"rendered":"google gets mid-evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the World Economic Forum in Davos last Friday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/developmenttopics\/websitemgmt\/story\/0,10801,108152,00.html\">assured <\/a> a questioner in the audience that his company had in fact thoroughly searched its soul before deciding to roll out a politically sanitized search engine in China:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We concluded that although we weren&#8217;t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all&#8230; We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ditherati.net\/archive\/\">Ditherati<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the World Economic Forum in Davos last Friday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt assured a questioner in the audience that his company had in fact thoroughly searched its soul before deciding to roll out a politically sanitized search engine in China: We concluded that although we weren&#8217;t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,289,625,706,755,893,1060,1281,1676,1997],"tags":[2524],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-evil","category-free_speech","category-google","category-internet","category-libraries-search-and-the-web","category-network_freedom","category-search","category-web","tag-google-search-china-free_speech-evil-censorship-internet-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}