Google China

[This isn’t an editorial.  I am indeed a free speech activist, as any superficial historian of the First Amendment and the Internet can tell you.  But everything I say below is written from the point of view of a public affairs strategist:  Google’s in a world of trouble and it needs to repair its reputation. …

The criticism of Google’s China version is emotion-filled but accurate.  I don’t mean to imply that a lot of smart and caring people at Google didn’t think hard about a way out of this quandry, only that they chose to draw the line in the wrong place. If you read enough editorials, the critics’ arguments…

There’s been so much criticism over Google China, it would be impossible not to examine it as a case study for any number of things.  I will address the larger debate over the complicity with censorship, but wanted to touch on a point that has been overlooked by many of Google’s critics: Google’s decision not…

This is a three part essay I wrote about Google’s PR woes and how to fix them: Part One: Keeping Mail and Blog Services out of the oppressor’s hands Part Two: Complying with the law Part Three: Digging out of your own hole I’m posting this as a placeholder for the entire series.