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Give us reasons to trust you!

As you know it, we the users are the reason why the Market believe in you, give the means of your next success - and, from time to time, tolerate your failing.

As the financial market give you the money to invest, we give you opportunities to have your innovations recognized and we may echo your vision for tomorrow services: we are the promise that makes your investors love you so much, and we are your best ally to pay them back with pretty benefits.

Please take our needs and priorities into account.

We the users are simple men, women and children with simple needs - but they are important to us.
We the users are non-governmental organisations with ethical values and priorities.
We the users are companies with strategic priorities and budgets to be spent rationally.
We the users are information specialists: We need to know our tools and know how far we can trust them.
We the users are many powerful and democratic governments that deal everyday with democratic values, human rights and free access to legitimate information.

We the users need information to choose our tools.

Talking about you as “search engines” is just a way to make it simple. Truth is you have become Systematic Portal to Evaluated and Enlightened Data, Information and Images (Speedy). We can not anymore let you do whatever you want and say nothing. Some powerful governments are aware of this issue and came to you with their requests an priorities.
Be sure that we are too: Time has come to talk with us.

Please take the needed time to answer these few questions. Your answers will be published on the web. Each of your users will have the ability to take these answers into account in their everyday choice.

As your time is valuable, we are aware that the quality of your answers is a sign of respect and consideration toward our request.
In return, we the users will take the needed time to understand your position and give a respectful echo to these answers.
We just want to have a productive, true and honest dialog with you.

Transparency:
We need to understand what are your strategic choices? Your priorities? And your technical choices?
We are not asking you to put everything in open source licensing. But we need to understand enough your choices to trust your technology - and use it @best.
What you will tell us today might change tomorrow: give us a modus operandi for the coming times. Tell us about the way you will make these answers be only a begining.

Warranties :
That’s such a snappy changing world! You might be king of the world today and gone tomorrow. Look at AOL! Just try to remember Messier. Maybe tomorrow a great company will be bought by repressive countries leadership…
That’s business life - but these are your choices. So we need warranties.
Please tell us about it.

Ethics:
OK, you’re a company - so your goal is to make benefits. That’s what made you wake up this morning, that’s the way it is. We are fine with that.
Our matter is to understand your limits. What would make you stop. If you are afraid to loose your financing by answering this question: you should not worry. Just take the time to explain them that ethical behaviour is a highly growing and profitable market.
And as you know it: governments might help or block your access to a market. But governments are not Your Market: make your choices carefully. Maybe the market will forget your mistakes and your priorities. Maybe it won’t.
You make your choices, we make ours: please consider our needs and priorities, and take the needed time to answer honestly this question.

Thank you for your precious time and for the high quality of your answers.

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It deals with: Corporate responsibility : Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression.

As everyone will understand, my wish is to find a solution without having to call US government and legislators for help. I agree with the wish (that is why I signed) - but I do not believe in the choosen mean:

1. This immediate solution means nothing for tomorrow because I do not believe tomorrow’s Internet is American. I believe that was the 20th century and I am persuaded that many of the next global tools we will adopt will come from the rest of the world - and Asian countries will come first.
2. I do not believe that technical and innovative know-how is directly linked to democracy: and this is the core of my preoccupation!
3. US governement tradition is to treat differently the rest of the world from the domestic population as we deal with democracy and human rights: in consequences, I am not sure that RSF’s proposal will have such an effect in China or any other repressive country.
4. Having to define a repressive countries list and a touchy words list sound like quite arbitrary. And as I understand the mecanism: US governement will define all that through US legislators. Are we sure that American or French or British governments’ arbitrary is so nice and honest and best for the world?

I am sorry but I am not a believer! And I do not understand why I should talk to US governement to resolve a case in China.

If you look at it carefully: Google refuses to answer US government but execute Chinese governement’s wish - and they are not alone in that case as RSF tells it well.

You made the link: we should ask the Chinese goevernment! The point is the repressive countries don’t care and get what they want. So what can we do?