BY FROMA HARROP So Google wants to play human-rights superhero. Five years ago, it compromised its standing as the global avatar of cyber-freedom by blocking certain searches on its Chinese website at the behest of the government in Beijing. Now it’s threatening to leave China after discovering a massive campaign to hack the Gmail accounts of dissidents there. If it follows through, Google would be abandoning a potential $1 billion annual market for search engines. […]
Google’s [Sort Of] Heroism
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