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The Google Case: When Law and Ethics Collide

By jlutz99

From The Atlantic an interesting article on Google in China.  Here's an excerpt:

A fundamental precept for international companies is compliance with the law of the nation in which they do business.

But a recurrent dilemma is what happens when that "national law" (e.g. state censorship in China) collides with the corporation's global ethical standards (e.g. "no censorship" for a media company)?

The answers are not easy--or uniform. They depend, greatly, on the corporation's deeply held values and on strongly held views of important stakeholders (shareholders, creditors, employees, customers, suppliers).

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).