Sánchez-Ocaña Alejandro Suárez. TIME-sector employer since 1998 CEO of the Group Publispain, the network of blogs Entertainment Networks SL and Leisure Blogs, Chairman of Inversora Foley, Director and Founding Partner of Yes.fm, advisor and investor in several companies in innovation, new technologies and internet.
Freedom or lunch?
This is a forum published last Friday in La Vanguardia. You can download it in pdf from here
Freedom or lunch?
While elucidate whether the Mountain View company is hero or villain to the Chinese people are dozens of political and commercial reasons why Google would have much to lose if ultimately leaves a country with over four million Internet users and 40% growth year. A hypothetical scenario where the return would be very slow and extremely costly.
But Google has not always been a champion of freedom, voluntarily signed a contract with the Chinese government which lent themselves to censor certain content, pornography, Tibet, dissident movements, violence, ... to settle in China.
But the Internet is by definition a liberal and anarchic, which validates that the user wants to consume information and details you want to issue. It puts us in a scenario that however much the authorities of a country wishing to limit content, if the end user wishes to consume, you may do likewise, it is technically feasible to bypass proxy servers all sorts of limitations. It is not block specific sender of the message, we can all be, and can not be technically or humanly limited to millions of individuals as potential information sources; If there is interest in the population to reach certain levels, this will happen.
But Google is afraid of reprisals from the Chinese government and wasted little time in issuing a statement exonerating some of their employees, can not avoid the cancellation of trade agreements with large Chinese corporations, who can not work with companies convicted of Beijing, will see tens of complaints about advertising deals and missed everyday risks of a possible punishment in the markets. But the vendetta of the Chinese authorities may be even greater and involve an insurmountable barrier to entry for the future.
The Chinese could be applied to the letter that Kennedy's famous phrase, "forgive your enemies but never forget their names."
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