http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html With great power comes great responsibility: on all political and social issues, Google’s policy is Don’t be evil, where evil is whatever Google co-founder Sergey Brin thinks is evil. So when Chinese users were blocked from Google, Brin
ordered a half-dozen books about Chinese history, business, and politics on Amazon.com and splurged on overnight shipping. He consulted with Schmidt, Page, and David Drummond, Google’s general counsel and head of business development, then put in a call to tech industry doyenne Esther Dyson for advice and contacts. Google has no offices in China, so Brin enlisted go-betweens to get the message to Chinese authorities that Google would be very interested in working out a compromise to restore access.
