SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hav
e always said they put their principles before profit, even to the point of
using their control of the company to take a stand.
The billionaires' idealism underlies a potentially expensive decision disclo
sed this week: Google's threat to leave China's rapidly growing Internet mar
ket in defense of free speech and its users' privacy rights.
It's a bold move unlikely to be made without the explicit support of Page an
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