The great firewall of China is a manifestation of the oppressive regime that denies the Chinese people their basic rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The recent action taken by Google to leave China is a move in the right direction. However, Google, like other U.S firms in China, played a deceitful role in abetting the injustice perpetrated by the Chinese government. Google as a company enjoyed the rights guaranteed by the U.S constitution, while they helped an oppressive regime deny it to billions of citizens. Furthermore, abetting an oppressive regime suppress and subjugate its citizens is unethical from any moral standpoint.
Google’s Ethical Challenges in China China is one of the strictest countries when it comes to dealing with foreign multinational corporations. Any international company willing to set up shop in China must comply with the strict laws of doing business in the country. More often than not, international companies doing business in China face a lot of obstacles due to differences in values they stand for. For instance, Google. Inc. China is a classic example of a multinational corporation that has struggled to conduct successful business in China.
China has large population base, and the average education level is low. But that not mean Chinese don’t have judgment to distinguish the fact and rumors. All in all, Chinese government should accept foreign social networking like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. To forbid those networking cannot stop the rumors radically, however, it would lose more useful information than those rumors. Everyone have his or her rights to know what happened and what already has happened in their owe country.
The Great Firewall is what people call the firewall that prevents users from reaching certain sites. To find the sites that need censoring, they create algorithms to go through the internet looking for blacklisted words. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are required to cooperate with the government and sign the public pledge, which has been criticized by the United... ... middle of paper ... ...orried about China and it's censoring. Some businesses do not want to initiate deals because of the limited access of the internet. All the monitoring and censorship causes issues with business, trade, and the economy.
The US government’s view was that Google entered China by placing move value on making profits than protecting citizens’ right to the freedom of speech. Google wasn’t the only American company in China making large profits, but Google was held to a higher standard because of their stance on doing what is right or as they say “Don’t Be Evil.” However, the US Government was not the only one to have negative feelings about Google in China. Americans were unhappy with Google in China as well. Google has been criticized for censoring its service in China and for digitizing copies of books online. Book publishers have raised their voice
Its governing system is worrying and the trend that the nation is undertaking seems to be headed for disaster as opposed to safety (Kenny). China is proving to be a dangerous superpower because its ideologies and policies on international issues do not depict a rational superpower. A superpower has the responsibility to unite nations and promote peace because it has recognition across the world, and other nations are willing to listen to the superpower. China has depicted negativity and lack of interest in uniting the world, but instead taken actions that are bent towards war and terror across the world. In addition, it has gone against the moral expectations of all nations by supporting the countries that violate human rights.
In 2006, Google made a deal with the People’s Republic of China to launch Google.cn, a modified version of the American Google search engine. Because of Chinese censorship laws, Google was required to become an Internet service provider in China, as well as censor search results in order to remove any results that are considered illegal in China (Wilson). This means that Google was implying that the vision for their company could comply with the self-censorship laws in China, however, being an American company, they received much criticism about whether their decision was ethical. A factor in Google’s extreme success was the fact that they provided many more services than just a search engine. In fact, Google is used for translation services, email, and blog hosting, among various other things.
Taking into account that terrorists like to use the security threat posed by Apple's mobile phone, the introduction of this law is the last straw that killed the camels. Because the personal information and important data collected and generated by Apple mobile phones are very large, they must be stored in China. In addition, the Internet data center does not allow foreign-funded enterprises to operate and they need to issue licenses. Apple is doing so to meet the relevant provisions of China's cloud services, apparently not even a joint
The Electrnic Herd is the bully in this global economy, with that said all nations must come together to create a better as well as a much stronger enforcement of regulations and laws that protect both national intersests of all. Not every nation became who they are by follwing the same formula , China is more communist than the United States yet we share one thing in common, we both have emeging economies that make us amoung the few wealthiest nations in the world. Yet investors and corporations alike want to make the public beilve that all markets are the same when in truth they are not.
Dell's extensive use of e-commerce contributed to further cost minimization, reduced the order and delivery time for customers, and customization. There are three golden rules at Dell: disdain inventory, always listen to the customer, and never sell indirectly. Key Issue(s) China had been identified as a very promising market and Dell has set the goal to improve its rank from seventh to second place in this PC market. However, Dell faces many challenges in this market. The Chinese government actively promotes the Chinese PC maker "Legend" who dominated the market; penetration of the Internet is relatively slow; software piracy is rampant; competition is intense.