Google's Mission, Ethical Principles and Involvement in China Case Study

Googles Mission, Ethical Principles and Involvement in China - Case Study idealall, referring to the censoring imposed by the Chinese authorities on Google search engine that were deemed subversive and politically sensitive particularly crackdown of demonstrators in Tiananmen Square (Levin, 2014).This mission has also influenced Googles strategy to work against censorship and to obey the laws and regulations of the country they are operating in. Such that in 2010, Google became exasperated with Chinas censorship policies that it pulled out its operation out of China (Goldman, 2015). Googles co-founder Sergei Brin even announced that our own websites and for the Internet as a whole we have worked tirelessly to combat internet censorship around the world(Goldman, 2015). The Chinese market however just proved to be too important for Google to ignore that in whitethorn of 2012, the companion announced an anti-censorship feature under the pretext of improving search quality (Wright, 2 013) which is an indication that the company is yielding to the censorship demands of the Chinese authority. During those times of censorship of the Chinese g everyplacenment against Google, the service of Google deteriorated that it preferred self-censorship over bad and no business and be able to provide more training than no training at all.Self-censorship is Googles compromise to be able to operate in China that it would be break up to give Chinese users access to a limited amount of information, than to none at all. This may not be the ideal way for Google to operate in China but it also has to attach to the laws and regulation of the country that it is operating in. Self-censorship to follow the laws and regulations of the host country does not mean that Google is already world evil. It may be a compromise but it is still consistent with Googles mission.The censorship in the Chinese market is no longer new to Google also. Google also had practiced self-censorship in Fran ce, Germany and Poland to ban pro-Nazi information as it is