Anytime a company sides with making money than doing what is right, well let’s face it you can trust them to make a buck. What about saying you’ll do something, and not doing it? That is the position Google may find themselves. Remember when a handshake clenched the deal. Or when it was important to keep a good name?  Sign a contract to suppress free speech? Google, what were you thinking?

Let’s see, we buy cheaper until we find lead in the products destined for our kids.  We are now finding Cadmium in the products destined for our kids from the same source. We trusted the Consumer Product Safety Council. Who knew they didn’t perform tests on all products. (Fool me once) But wait, we still buy from the same source? When I heard about drywall used in Louisiana homes with toxic levels of sulfuric compounds, how surprised was I? Consumer Product Safety Council PLEASE test ALL products from China that either I or my children will use! I know it will cost more, but both my children and I will live longer to use them!

Let’s see if we can figure this out. If an organization that sells toothpicks, advertises “we sell only fake toothpicks”. An anti-wood organization is protesting the business. Instead of opening up their books and allowing independent auditing, they target the protestors, hacking their websites, putting them in jail, forcing companies that want to do business with them to block all anti-wood lovers from being able to browse to anti-wood websites. What could be happening? Who would you trust?

There is one difference; we are talking about life and death. Not toothpicks and wood. Human rights mean Human life.  Part of the preamble from United Nations states:

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, ..

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Google pulling out of China will be a gong heard around the world. We are sick of becoming sick from your products. We are sick of your hardball to coerce contracts. We are sick of you not just allowing the hacking of our companies, but organizing and funding them. Call it what you will, I’ll pay more. I’ll choose companies by their ethics, not what they publish, but what they practice.

Google, it’s time to teach the master some yin yang. Yahoo blew it;

http://www.charlescorcoran.com/post/2008/07/30/Information-Highway-A-privilege-or-right.aspx

Who will you trust?  Proverbs 3:5