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The Real Cost of Google's Sellout to China
Editor & Publisher ^ | January 26, 2006 | Thomas Lipscomb

Posted on 01/26/2006 11:47:01 AM PST by WaterDragon

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To: Mogengator
Essentially, Google has said that they can do more good (less evil) by being in China and going along with the program than by not being in China at all.

In their, a'hem, unbiassed opinion...

41 posted on 01/30/2006 12:41:30 PM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: Mogengator

Seems to me a lot of Google shareholders may be supporting its censorship in service to the Chinese Communists for other than 'idealistic' reasons.


42 posted on 01/30/2006 12:44:12 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon

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.


43 posted on 01/30/2006 1:40:51 PM PST by Mogengator
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To: Mogengator; JoeMcCarthy; Tailgunner Joe
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?

44 posted on 01/30/2006 3:29:58 PM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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Just who are the "some people"?

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.

45 posted on 01/30/2006 3:57:01 PM PST by Mogengator
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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?

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...

46 posted on 01/30/2006 4:06:42 PM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Legality is not morality. The soldiers at Nazi concentration camps were following their laws too.


47 posted on 01/30/2006 4:10:50 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: WaterDragon

Which is exactly what Hillary would like to do to the internet.


48 posted on 01/30/2006 4:23:46 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (When I learn everything, I will know nothing.)
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