HRM 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: General Counsel, Godaddy, Web Hosting Service
23 May 2018
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HRM 3400 Lecture 26 Notes – Re-Evaluate
Introduction
• Google’s oe is ausig a opaies that do usiess i Chia to re-evaluate their
own motivations and convictions.
• So far, hile a hae applauded Google’s deisio, ol a fe hae folloed suit.
• Popular Web hosting company GoDaddy stopped registering domain names for the .cn
domain.
• That decision came after the Chinese government demanded personal information
about people who had purchased domain names from GoDaddy.
• Microsoft has stated that it intends to continue growing its business in China.
• Even Google continues other operations in China and looks forward to robust sales of
Google Android phones in China in coming years.
• China isn't the only country where Google censors content based on government-
imposed policies.
• Google has posted the site www.google.com/governmentrequests that lists
governments that require Google to censor content.
• Brazil, Germany, India, the UK, South Korea, and the U.S. rank high on the list.
• Granted, censorship is sometimes justified, such as in cases where it protects
populations from physical harm.
• However, many feel that it is not justified when it is used to silence dissident opinions
such as in China.
• Increasingly, technology companies such as Google and Internet service providers are
assuming responsibility for policing Internet content.
• Google's stae agaist Chia’s esorship has sho that the opa is learl
uncomfortable with its role as a censor and causes some to wonder if it may not follow
up with changes in policy elsewhere.
• Google's chief legal officer wrote that the China issue "goes to the heart of a much
igger gloal deate aout freedo of speeh.”
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