Well, it looks like I won’t be buying stock in Google afterall. Heaven forbid people be able to search the web for ” ’sensitive’ topics.” You know, evil ideas such as human rights, democracy, Free Tibet, and so forth. Stupid Google. It’d be nice to see a company find their backbone and give China the digital finger over their censorship demands.
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I’m repeatedly disappointed by the prevalence of the “Free Tibet” movement. Shouldn’t we be working towards a “Free China?”
We should be working towards both.
One of these days I’m going to make yellow on red stickers that match the “Free Tibet” bumper stickers I see all over the place here in Hippy Sonoma County that just say “China.” I will proceed to slap these new stickers over the word “Tibet” anywhere I come across it.
Anyhow, it’s interesting how much media play Google gets for not complying with a subpoena from the US government, but nary a word of this nastiness was mentioned on CNBC.
The reason I think there are so many supporters of the “Free Tibet” movement, is because “all” it would take to give Tibet back to its people, and have them reinstate their leader, the Dali Lama is for China to pull out of the county, stop killing their religious leaders and harassing the people that live there.
In order to “Free China” much bigger strides need to take place and the chief among them, is for China to abandon the atrocious anti-human rights practices. The chances of this happening, in all honesty, is extremely slim. And that’s just for one aspect of China to change. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to endorse change in China, but I freeing Tibet from Chinese rule, would be easier to achieve.
We’re we in favor of democracy? Wouldn’t setting up a radical theocracy that close to the middle east constitute a threat to national security? Yes, I’m kidding.
Anyhow, it looks like congress is actually rattling sabres over the decidedly non-”not evil” policies of Google in regards to China:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e3f999fe-8dfc-11da-8fda-0000779e2340.html
I think this is part of the general strategy to bring Western culture and values into China. Google and Microsoft and others had to agree to the censorship in order to be let into the Chinese market, but now that they are in the hope is that over time they can convice the government to reduce it’s censorship.
The censorship is a joke. All it takes to void it is a little creative misspelling. Not to mention the fact that you can still access the US Google with anonymizers.
The minds at Google being what they are, it would not be difficult for them to implement really strong statistically derived censorship. That they’re not bothering to do so suggests that it was implemented to the letter of the law only.
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