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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
In their, a'hem, unbiassed opinion...
Seems to me a lot of Google shareholders may be supporting its censorship in service to the Chinese Communists for other than 'idealistic' reasons.
For the record, Mr. Chairman, let me state that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Google shareholder.
It does appear, however, that some people are jealous of Google's success and won't pass up an opportunity to badmouth it.
A'hem again, oh ye who make allusions to McCarthyism...
Just who are the "some people"?
And in order to be precise, please define your term, "success."
Successful at aiding and abetting Communist thought-control?
See above posts.
And in order to be precise, please define your term, "success."
Have you seen their stock price lately? Did you read E&P's whine about them being worth more than all the newspapers put together?
Successful at aiding and abetting Communist thought-control?
That would be in the eye of the beholder.
So what. So is stock price really the be-all and end-all, the essence and definition of "success"?
And then there was my other question:
Successful at aiding and abetting Communist thought-control?
That would be in the eye of the beholder.
Really? Let's say you are in the shoes of the dissidents in China. How would you see it then? Do Google's rationalizations ring a little hollow then...if not outright specious and self-serving?
Maybe you have no way of even appreciating the circumstances of someone who opposes the communist regime...
Legality is not morality. The soldiers at Nazi concentration camps were following their laws too.
Which is exactly what Hillary would like to do to the internet.
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