Who is the third who walks always beside you?

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?

T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land. Via her

Google genovervejer Kina – lukker måske søgesiden

På deres blog – lige nu – offentliggør Google at de er blevet udsat for et systematisk angreb fra Kina rettet mod kinesiske demokratifortaleres gmails. Dette har fået virksomheden til at genoverveje sit engagement med den kinesiske regering.

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Der er respekt herfra til Googles beslutning. Stort, modigt og frem for alt en stor anderkendelse af virksomhedens egen corporate responsibility som hele verdens foretrukne informationsfremskaffer.

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