Silicon Politics: Makes Sense on a Small Scale
August 28, 2018
The current incarnation of Silicon Valley has always prided itself on making products that make the world a better place. While tech companies rarely get political, this is changing and it’s making life a little more complicated for them and us. We discovered just how wide ranging this issue was going with a recent IT Pro Today story, “Google’s Brin Cops to Plan to Reclaim Lost Decade in China.”
According to the story:
“Sergey Brin — the very executive most closely associated with the decision in 2010 to pull out of China. It was a widely lauded move by Google managers, led by Brin, who argued that they’d rather leave than subject their search tool to China’s stringent rules that filter out politically sensitive results, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.”
Why the shift? Easy. With Apple being one of the few tech businesses thriving in China and also becoming the first trillion-dollar company, Google wants in on the action—revenue lost over 10 years may be a factor. Perhaps the only factor?
Patrick Roland, August 27, 2018
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