Is This What “Slippery Slope” Means ?

Via the Toronto Globe and Mail …

Brin says Google compromised principles
TED BRIDIS
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.

Meeting with reporters near Capitol Hill, Brin said Google had agreed to the censorship demands only after Chinese authorities blocked its service in that country. Google’s rivals accommodated the same demands — which Brin described as "a set of rules that we weren’t comfortable with" — without international criticism, he said.

"We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service and perhaps make more of a difference," Brin said.

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Brin said Google is trying to improve its censored search service, Google.cn, before deciding whether to reverse course. He said virtually all the company’s customers in China use the non-censored service.

"It’s perfectly reasonable to do something different, to say, ‘Look, we’re going to stand by the principle against censorship and we won’t actually operate there.’ That’s an alternate path," Brin said.

"It’s not where we chose to go right now, but I can sort of see how people came to different conclusions about doing the right thing."

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