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Has Google amended its “Don’t be evil” mantra with a new clause granting exceptions for some special clients? No, I don’t mean to rehash Google’s China tale. (That one doesn’t need reiteration. It speaks for itself. Plus, you know, it’s complicated. Google presumably doesn’t want to have it both ways as far as freedom and compliance with authoritarianism goes. What can it do, really? Say goodbye to a market comprised of some 220 million Internet users? Nope.) Rather, I mean to bring up an item mentioned by Verne Kopytoff of the San Francisco Chronicle today. The story is Google’s sale of servers to the federal government. In particular, various intelligence agencies. Cue that J. Bourne soundtrack.
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