Google, Yahoo, etc: Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is

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© John Alphonse

Educate from within if you are going to concede to censorship from without. If companies are willing to overlook human rights violations in dealing with corporations and governments alike, for a determined "greater good" in a competitive market, then wouldn't the logical end result of this concession be some sort of contribution to a greater exposure of and education on these censored subjects outside the borders of jurisdiction of these "gag agreements"? Isn't anything short of this practically "aiding and abetting" injustice, or misinformation at least? Voluntarily, would it strike these influential companies to apply some sort of adaptation of the "pollution credits" technique in helping to clear the waters of a Great Diked Truth (Great Wall pun initially unintended) being disseminated ultimately through American business channels? We can call them "Information Pollution Credits" measured in man-hours of lecture algorithmically spun over number of attendees/web viewers/water-cooler mentions.

For starters, maybe companies making censorship concessions for business could create an awareness among their own with some in-house lectures on these subjects censored from certain foreign affiliated sites. Why not educate the truth about Falun Gong and the Dalai Llama directly to employees of an influential corporation wielding an influential medium so as to counteract these concessions on freedom of information elsewhere? The exponential effect outside China would seem to produce more clear water than murk at that point, numbers-wise. The censorship would eventually become moot by default, displacing the negative by multiplying the positive...

It's due time that for-profit business put its mouth where its money is, meaning that, if profiting from an institution of suppression, have the integrity to advocate for justice on behalf of those who aren't in a position to do so, and use the limelight and the power of money not to favor one cause or idea over another, but to contribute to leveling the playing field with equal access to information for all.

Is doing nothing a better idea? How long can an entity turn a profit and turn its back, and still be an entity?