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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (556803)3/24/2010 1:36:59 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1571805
 
From TSCM.com:

GOOGLE - my hero

3/24/2010 7:27 AM EDT

I know, as commentators here, that our job is to analyze events and how they will affect stock prices. For today, I'm taking a break, to cheer when a company does something only because it's RIGHT. Three cheers for Google, and their drop of Chinese censorship, no matter what it does to their shares.

You can count corporate courage moments like this on one hand, maybe one finger -- anyone remember Yahoo's Jerry Yang, rolling over on the Chinese despots for the sake of access -- "yeah, what names do you want? we've got 'em all!"

For once, an American company has shown there are limits to pursuing success, here is one, and I'm hoping more American companies, and everyone with access to a forum like this one stand up and take notice. I'm ordering my Nexus phone - and I don't even need one or know what it DOES...
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