Maksudur Rahman
BBA 432
Case Study Chap 3

1. What immediate and longer-term issues does Google’s censorship decision create?
Google’s censorship decision created a large number of expeditious questions. When Google’s stock fell, many protestors went the google headquarters in California and they assembled in front google office there. About 50,000 letter were sent to the CEO of the company. I those some of the, trying to rebuild the fallen stock of the company and regain the reputation. On the other hand, while maintain business with china they had cope with the government’s censorship relegation. 2. Prior to the launch of Google.cn, what factors should Google have considered in reaching their decision to comply with Chinese government censorship laws?
Prior to the launch of Google.cn, google should have analyzed the ethical and legal effects of this. However, they only considered the business opportunities in china without analyzing the analyzing the ethical and legal effects. They should have considered their social responsibilities. They are in business to make profit but it should not be in the expense of others. They should have acted ethically and analyzed their mission more before going china. 3. Assess Dr. Schmidt’s statement “We actually did an evil scale and decided that not to serve at all was worse evil.” Was Google being evil?
From my perspective, I believe google was being evil and Dr. Schmidt statement is true. The company’s mission is to make information universally accessible. However, by doing this Google actually betrayed their own mission and betrayed the goals of the company. They should not allow the censorship of its search engines. 4. Using Thomas Donaldson’s Ethical Algorithm, assess the censorship issue and determine whether Google could be said to have acted ethically based on this model. Is the Ethical Algorithm