Google Does China

" Google looks out for Google.

That's probably the best explanation for the Internet search giant's apparently contradictory behavior in two recent dust-ups with national governments.
On the one hand, Google is fending off a U.S. Justice Department request to see Google's indexes of Web sites and all the search terms that Googlers type in. The Feds want the information to buttress a defense of a federal Internet pornography law that had been overturned by an appeals court. At issue is the effectiveness of commercial software filters designed to shield innocent eyes from scandalous sites.
At a moment when privacy advocates are already riled about government snooping, Google invited and got much praise for resisting the request. But its stand probably had less to do with civil liberties ... "

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