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29 May 2008 - 6:29am — Christopher Wright
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Help Desk, by Christopher B. Wright
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UNNAMED GOOGLE WORKER 1: This is nothing to worry about, Scott.

SCOTT: ...but he said we were villains! And that he was coming here! To hurt people! Maybe me!

UNNAMED GOOGLE WORKER 1: We're not villains, Scott.

UNNAMED GOOGLE WORKER 2: We're a company who adheres to the laws of the countries we do business in, especially for criminal investigations. We have no control over how these countries operate.

SCOTT: So I'm going to be OK?

UNNAMED GOOGLE DEVELOPER 1: May I fall down dead otherwise.

(CEILING picks up UNNAMED GOOGLE DEVELOPER 1.)

CEILING: *SPLORT*

UNNAMED GOOGLE DEVELOPER 2: ...Technically he fell up.

(CEILING drops UNNAMED GOOGLE DEVELOPER 1.)

CEILING: *THUD*

UNNAMED GOOGLE DEVELOPER 2: Nevermind.

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Comments

Fatal error encountered

29 May 2008 - 7:20am — DavidRS1992

"who adheres the laws"

"who adheres to the laws"

Spot the difference.

Why David...

29 May 2008 - 7:27am — Christopher Wright

... I have no idea what you're talking about.

:)

(Refresh your browser if you still see it.)

In fairness to Google,

29 May 2008 - 1:36pm — GDwarf (not verified)

In fairness to Google, whether or not to obey local laws if you find them morally objectionable is a very complex issue, and there are no easy answers.

At first glance it certainly seems that way: "They're evil, why are you helping them?" but then moral relativism rears it's head: how do you know they aren't right? I'm going to say they aren't, but it still raises questions about imposing your morality on others. (Which, I know, works both ways, governments shouldn't be doing it...or should they? etc. ><)

But then, you also have to consider the fact that if you disobey the local laws then your workers there end up arrested, and your offices there closed. Congratulations, you've just cut your company off from that market permanently, and you've gone and got your employees in legal trouble, is giving government x the information they wanted really worse than that?

etc.

I really don't envy Google or Yahoo, they've got to make some really tough calls, and none of their options would give them good PR.

Anyways, good comic today and yesterday.