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  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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  • Pascal Marmier
  • Kelly Richdale
  • Stephen Whittle
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September 03, 2006

Internet companies and censorship

Should they or shouldn't they... autocensor themselves in order to stay up and running in countries that have different censorship rules ? A lot has been written about this (check out ethical corporation with links to amnesty etc...), and a lot of criticism has been directed at Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. It is not an easy question to answer. A bit like privacy rights, they are different in different cultures. So when in Rome... I guess they did what they had to do.

Posted by on September 03, 2006 at 08:47 PM in Ethics on the Web |

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Trace

Agree with you!

Posted by: Trace | September 04, 2006 at 10:13 AM

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