“Don’t Be Evil” is Google’s informal corporate slogan. The founders of Google claimed that this motto explained their culture that “prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias.” According to Google’s code of conduct page this slogan is, “about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect.”
Can Google do business in an ethical manner if they allow for people to search for unethical content? Laws may decide what is legal, but who decides what is unethical or evil?
Every day someone searches for how to do something illegal and/or unethical through utilizing Google’s search engine. How much content should Google censor? The following articles address Google censorship issues:
- Google Slammed for Supporting Piracy
- Should Google Publish Info About Illegal Drugs
- Google Censorship Requests Alarming
- Google Should Be Forced to Censor Search Results
- Google Reports Alarming Rise in Government Censorship Requests
- Google Will Know More About You Than Your Partner
- Google’s Code of Conduct or Ethics
U.S. News reported, “The company is based in the United States, and thus must comply with U.S. laws. As a part of its policy, Google already censors things like child pornography, and complies with copyright infringement requests (a heavy volume of which come from videos uploaded on YouTube). Yet because services such as YouTube and Blogger are popular around the world, the company must decide to what extent it will remove content deemed illegal or offensive to foreign governments.”
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