Posted 8:55 AM by Gene

And over in that other bastion of UNTRUTHINESS:

Global corporations have always had to balance ethical, cultural and legal considerations with financial ones; asking them to define ethical foreign policy is like looking to professional athletes to develop steroid-test rules. As Page puts it, self-servingly but accurately, "It's pretty hard for companies to act as governments. To some extent that's a good thing for the U.S. State Department to be doing. I'm not sure that's our role."

For Google, getting a foothold in the Chinese market now may well be vital for its survival 20 years hence. So it's not surprising that it would trade that financial confidence for a little ethical dustup. The real risk is that some of that dust will stick to Google's snowy-white brand identity. Google trades on its image as a different kind of company. It became a little clearer last week that there can be only one kind of company: the kind that makes money.

You don't suppose this has something to do with such a noble statement? Or this? Count on untruthiness at PEOPLE NEWSRAG.

We've come to a pretty pass when a FLACK SHEET is more honest than a NEWS STORY.

P. S. The shame is there's some solid reporting (at least online) of that dreadful Red Sea ferry disaster. But take synergy like this and an unpaid paid ad like this and why shouldn't people figure a newsrag's all meretricious sniveling hackwork?