September 27, 2008
07:39 am
Don’t be evil
Google has much to answer for over the last few years, including their policy of cooperating with Chinese totalitarianism; still, this statement from Sergey Brin is a step in the right direction. Well done.
Google has much to answer for over the last few years, including their policy of cooperating with Chinese totalitarianism; still, this statement from Sergey Brin is a step in the right direction. Well done.
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.
However, while there are many objections to this proposition -- further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text -- it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology
posted by Gene Cowan | category Right = Wrong
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