Google Does Diplomatic Dance to Keep Content Online
Zacharia, Janine, Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
When Thailand blocked Google Inc.'s YouTube Web site last year, the company dispatched deputy general counsel Nicole Wong to help restore access. In Bangkok, a sea of yellow shirts stunned her.
It was a Monday, when Thais wear yellow to honor King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Seeing their reverence, Wong says she grasped why officials reacted so strongly to a video blending a picture of Bhumibol with graffiti -- an image that ran afoul of a law against insulting the 80-year-old monarch. Google agreed to block the clip in Thailand while leaving it available elsewhere, and YouTube returned to Thai computers.
Welcome to the culture clashes that Google and other …
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Article title: Google Does Diplomatic Dance to Keep Content Online.
Contributors: Zacharia, Janine - Author.
Newspaper title: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Publication date: June 8, 2008.
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