| I'm not condoning, excusing or admonishing the practice -- just arguing for broader context in the current high-pitched debate about Google and its search brethren in China. Instead of picking out a couple of high-profile suspects and berating them, the nation needs to admit what we do all the time in the name of commerce, growth, jobs and technological supremacy -- and then decide if we're comfortable with that.
"Companies claim they sell these technologies but don't dictate how they're used," says Ronald Deibert, professor at the University of Toronto and an ONI director. "The issue is, what is the level of responsibility?" |
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