{"id":6354,"date":"2010-03-24T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:13:07","slug":"did-google-really-say-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/did-google-really-say-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Google Really Say this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NY Times (http:\/\/s.nyt.com\/u\/Q6T), Alan Davidson, director of United States public policy for Google, while testifying before congress, is noted as saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;censorship had become more than a human rights issue and was hurting profit for foreign companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is Google so self focused that they would elevate even $1 of their profit over human rights? Did the NY Times misquote him? Was this really his position? That Google&#8217;s profit was more important than human rights? <\/p>\n<p>If this was in fact said and what was meant, this man either needs a basic lesson in Enlighment thinking or a new speech writer. Better yet perhaps he should be looking for a new job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NY Times (http:\/\/s.nyt.com\/u\/Q6T), Alan Davidson, director of United States public policy for Google, while testifying before congress, is noted as saying: &#8220;censorship had become more than a human rights issue and was hurting profit for foreign companies.&#8221; Is Google so self focused that they would elevate even $1 of their profit over &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}