Google is doing evil. Lots of tech companies do evil and crappy things all the time, but the difference is that Google's motto is “Don't be evil.”
But they're being evil right now. Actually, they're being henchmen to evil, but it amounts to the same thing.
China is evil. It's a country that disregards human rights and does really crappy things internally and internationally. One of the evil things it does is censor news in an attempt to stop its population from knowing things that reflect poorly (by “poorly” I mean “accurately”) on the country's craptacular government.
As recently reported in an article in New Scientist magazine, Google is omitting some search results when the search is made from within China. Let's repeat that with less flowery prose: Google is censoring material on behalf of the Chinese government.
Don't be evil, huh?
Google's excuse for this is that the censoring technology infrastructure is already in place, and all Google is doing is omitting search results that link to pages already made inaccessible inside China. Clicking such links to censored sites would result in blank pages (and a reminder and example of the censorship going on, let's not forget), and Google claims that it's just trying to make its search more useful.
“I didn't do nothin' wrong, officer,” cried little Jimmy Google. “It was Chen who stoled all them purses—all I did was distract da old ladies so they didn't knowed they is being robbed. I didn't do nothin'!”
Shame on you, Google.
