{"id":10879,"date":"2010-01-17T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2010-01-17T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:45:00","slug":"googles-challenge-to-chinas-communist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10879\/googles-challenge-to-chinas-communist-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Challenge to China’s Communist Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s 2006 decision to enter the Chinese market on the Chinese government’s terms, which include censorship, is often held up as the symbolic moment when its mantra of “Don’t be evil” conflicted\u00a0 with a hard business reality. In the end, pragmatic capitalism won out over principle, and Google.CN was launched.<\/p>\n

Google’s rationalization that censored access to Google was better for the Chinese than no access to Google has always rung hollow to me. “Don’t be evil unless it is going to give competitors an edge in the world’s biggest market” still has “Don’t be evil” in it, but slippery slopes are paved with caveats. With that decision, Google merged off of the high road, joining the rest of the multinationals on the highway to the Chinese market.<\/p>\n

Now, the Chinese government has turned its significant cyber warfare skills<\/a>, honed by years of attacking US government and military networks, on Google in order to track dissidents and critics.<\/p>\n

Google has,\u00a0 surprisingly and righteously, reacted like Ralphie towards the end of A Christmas Story<\/em><\/a>. The company wheeled around on the bully Chinese government and boldly defended itself by publicly stating that the Chinese governement is a hacker, and that censorship is wrong<\/a>. It looks like they may well take the Google-logo colored exercise balls strewn across their Chinese operation and go home.<\/p>\n

Cynics have pointed out that Chinese Internet users don’t engage in a lot of eCommerce so Google may be taking the opportunity to abandon a drain on its resources while repairing some of the PR damage its decision to go into China caused in the first place.<\/p>\n

I doubt it. The lure of the sheer size of that market is still very strong. Last year Chinese consumers bought more cars than American consumers, and you don’t hear Microsoft (whose decision to grant the Chinese government access to Windows source code is the genesis of the Chinese cyber warfare program<\/a>) talking about pulling out.<\/p>\n

Chinese consumers are following the American consumer’s trajectory but with the huge booster of digital technology and our map:\u00a0 Today, they are hooked on the freedom of the automobile the way we were in Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s 2006 decision to enter the Chinese market on the Chinese government’s terms, which include censorship, is often held up as the symbolic moment when its mantra of “Don’t be evil” conflicted\u00a0 with a hard business reality. In the end, pragmatic capitalism won out over principle, and Google.CN was launched. Google’s rationalization that censored access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11289,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11289\/google-and-the-artifacts-of-inefficiency\/","url_meta":{"origin":10879,"position":0},"title":"Google and the artifacts of inefficiency","author":"Tom Johnson","date":"February 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The interwebs are BUZZING about Google Buzz and how benevolent Google co-opted everyone's contact lists from their Gmail accounts. 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