Discuss “Say What?”

Recently Google decided to set up servers in China, under the condition that it will censor its search results as per the dictates of the Chinese government. It is clear that Google has disregarded civil liberty in the interest of the potential revenue it can generate by taking advantage of a market of more than a billion people.

An alliance between a repressive regime and a giant corporation is nothing new. One of the first and most distasteful alliances was between T. J. Watson of the IBM Corporation and Hitler’s Nazi regime. In pursuit of a market monopoly, IBM aided the Nazis with the then-state-of-the-art punch-card technology. The Nazis used it to record the number of Jews rounded up, sent to various concentration camps, and those...