Over the last two weeks, Technology Review’s editorial staff has had some lively debates about Google, the role of search in the current digital landscape, and the effect international laws have on the perceptions of companies. The conversation started as Google moved ahead with its China strategy – but it’s impossible to have the discussion without talking about Yahoo.
The back-and-forth among our staffers was sometimes contentious because these three issues – as they’re tied together – don’t have a nice, neat bow. Out of those debates came, in my opinion, the most interesting series of stories we’ve done since the website’s relaunch on November 7. Those stories: Swayed in China, In Google We Trust, Evading the Google Eye, and Google: Beyond Good and Evil.
But the debates we have are largely theoretical, as journalism sometimes is. While we continue to debate the merits of how American search companies should function within the borders of other countries, real life plows ahead. Reuters has a story today detailing how a second Chinese citizen was arrested by his government after Yahoo turned over information on a journalist.
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