I work in an industry that Google may half-destroy, but last week I sympathized with the gobbler of all ad revenue. Google was beaten up in the media for bowing to censorship in China, even though plenty of news organizations sell their wares in countries where they get censored. Meanwhile, the dilemma of censorship turned personal for me. A Chinese publisher expressed interest in my recent book on the World Bank — provided that certain passages were deleted.My first reaction was: Forget it. The test for such dilemmas is whether you’d mind being outed in public. If a media critic lambasted me for kowtowing to communist censors, I reckoned I’d feel lousy.
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