Posted on 01/26/2006 11:47:01 AM PST by WaterDragon
ast week Google announced its intention to resist a Department of Justice court action underway. DOJ wanted Google to allow a surveillance test of millions of its users’ search queries as part of its effort to enforce online pornography legislation passed by Congress to protect children. Yahoo, AOL, and MSN had already agreed to cooperate. But now, in an extraordinary development, Google has announced its decision to join the largest internet censorship effort in the world, being run by Communist China.
Google will actively assist the Chinese government in barring access to thousands of web sites and search terms, in fact anything on the world wide web the Chinese feel might destablize its authoritarian government. It will also eliminate the blogging and email services it offers elsewhere in the world. According to the Associated Press: “Google officials characterized the censorship concessions in China as an excruciating decision for a company that adopted ‘don't be evil’ as a motto.”
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To be fair, Google also complies with established law in this country (and others). We just happen to like our laws better than Chinese laws.
and to be more fair, if google balks the chinese can always get Yahoo or Microsoft to do the exact same thing. Corporations as a rule are psychopathic in character and this is no exception.
Here's more - Google shows its true colors
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B254DB30A%2DB720%2D4B94%2D90C3%2D7DBAF258DE2A%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
I wonder what Google would say if the Bush administration approached them with a plan to censor the internet by leaving out critical web sites?
"Google will actively assist the Bush government in barring access to thousands of web sites and search terms, in fact anything on the world wide web the Bush administration feels might destablize its government. It will also eliminate in the US the blogging and email services it offers elsewhere in the world."
Google spokespersons feel that this is perfectly in line with its motto of "Don't be evil" since it improves the bottom line finacially and that isn't evil.
Imagine if the UN ran the Internet. Such censorship would be global.
Nothing new to see here. Not much different than importing Chinese goods made by slave labor.
So I guess google will "assist" the Chinese government in quashing a harmless group like Falun Gong,but won't lift a finger for our government in quashing islamic terrorists or porn merchants.
he hate me.
"First, do no harm..."
...the liberals that run google feel that the USA is evil and that the chi-coms are good
That was not what came up at teoma.com, an excellent search engine I'll be using instead of google.
Our "global" corporations sell us out the Chinese each and every day. Child and slave labor making the cheap crap that stocks our shelves is far worse than what Yahoo is doing.
So porn merchants are the ones who gave us the internet? Did they also give us the photograph,the printing press and motion picture projector?
"We just happen to like our laws better than Chinese laws."
That's your definition of the moral and legal difference between the free people of the United States and the dictatorship in China - we "like our laws better".
Let us pray!!!!
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