Sergey Brin: Engine driver

Google's bold stand against China owes much to the ideals of the internet giant's co-founder

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sergey-brin-engine-driver-1869546.html

By Tim Walker

Saturday, 16 January 2010

When, two years previously, the world's largest internet firm had finally started doing business with the world's most populous country, Google's bosses agreed to impose search filters at the behest of Beijing. Thus search terms such as "Tiananmen Square" or "Dalai Lama" threw up results that were either innocuous or simply censored. Many of Google's idealistic employees, let alone its users, had long been troubled by the compromise. One of the site's founders, Larry Page, voted the motion down, as did the CEO, Eric Schmidt. But Page's co-founder, Sergey Brin, abstained.

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