Google: A struggle between morals and money
Social media has been a key part of our lives to the extent where we change our thoughts and preferences because of what it is we are reading and taking in as we are reading tweets and articles on Facebook.
We made our lives so much easier with applications and programs just to leave ourselves with this empty time that we spend on social media. Google left the Chinese market on top of their morals and not wanting to sell its info of people to their market along with a “fear of evil” as the article says.
Google was afraid of the Communistic market and had a fear of censorship despite having an open market that had more than double the internet users of the United States. It’s role was overtaken by a company known as Baidu, a company worth $99 billion in US currency.
If Google were to come back it would be seen as defeat in not only company values, but also a loss in Western democracy and ideology. Google is looking to now enter the market but will have no means of defending the company from the conspiracy of selling the info of american citizens.
It is already proven that western companies have failed when trying to go adapt to the Chinese industry. Companies like Uber have left and pulled out of the country and the failure of Amazon to even capture at least 1%. The flaw in changing their stance in entering the CHinese system could also be a turnoff to some as a loss in the company’s morals.
I really enjoyed reading this article as it put perspective into how local empires can still struggle with understanding the complex and systemic stances that other countries may have. This can be seen in the multiple failures that other companies like Coca-Cola have had in the past.