In the Spring of 2006 Google Was Extensively Criticized in the Media

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Essay

In the spring of 2006 Google was extensively criticized in the media for revealing the names of some of its Chinese users to the Government of China.Google claimed that they were simply obeying Chinese law and that if they did not they would be excluded from the Chinese market.More recently,Facebook was banned following the July 2009 riots.There have been recent reports in 2014 that Facebook is available,but so far this has been restricted to a new free-trade zone in Shanghai.Your company wants to expand into the Chinese market with an app that incorporates social networking,but your company has been told by Chinese government officials that significant changes and restrictions on the use of the app will have to be in place for your company to do business in China.
What philosophical approach(es)should Google have shown?

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