Doubting the Sincerity of Google’s Threat [Voices]

By Evgeny Morozov, Fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York

Unlike many other honorable members of the technology blogosphere, I am not too excited about Google’s (GOOG) ultimatum to the Chinese government (if you have been living in a cave or are not on Twitter: Google wants to either stop censoring search results on Google.cn or shut down their Chinese shop altogether).

Of course, all companies make mistakes, and Google’s executives may have discovered that they blundered when they decided to offer a censored version of Google.cn. I grant them the right to to fix the situation.

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