Be Evil at times, says Google
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira writes that Google was not being evil in helping the authorities arrest Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid,accused of posting obscene content on the Orkut community “I hate Soniya Gandhi.”
The accused admitted that he posted the content to the Orkut group “I hate Soniya Gandhi.” Note that neither the creator of the group, nor any other member of the group was arrested, only the one who posted content that was in clear violation of Indian law.
While Valleywag,the Silicon Valley Gossip Blog calls Google evil for divulging the details of the user and helping in the arrest.
“Do no evil” seems pretty darn flexible if you’re a moral relativist with profitable interests in international markets.
One comment
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
May 21st, 2008, 9:59 am | #
Thanks for the link!
I respectfully disagree with Valleywag (and TechCrunch and apparently most of my fellow U.S. bloggers). The U.S. is far from perfect, and as a society, we are increasingly judging other countries based on a skewed perspective of our own actions.
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