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appeasers. What did Uncle Joe Stalin say " useful idiots" ? about western liberal soviet apologists. :fish:

Quite honestly, its not the countries choice to not censor topics. I quite honestly beleive that if google decided to censor any gov't related topic, it should well be perfectly legal, not right, but legal. It is there choice what they do, and they wish to not make any international enimies, especialy comunists. If google wants to doom their company to oblivions, be my guest.

 

Though I have to admit, there was NO good way out of this request. Either way they make people mad at them...

Of course they are free to do as they wish with their own product (see the irony?), but I feel that this course of action is an incredible contradiction and I have lost much respect for this company.

 

Through their actions, they are sanctioning this repression of freedom by China's totalitarian regime. They are helping to violate the freedoms that made their success possible in the first place. It's an undeniable contradiction, and it will only strengthen the enemies of human rights.

 

Google for infomation on Shi Tao, and you'll see how something as seemingly harmless as catering to the Chinese goverment by doing business with them gives them the power to imprison a man (who has no access to government secrets) 10 years for communicating with pro-democracy groups in the U.S., under the pretense that he disclosed "national secrets". Much of China's censorship technology was supplied by the United States.

 

In the long run, Google is dooming their company to oblivion by undermining the principles they owe their existence to.

Nice entry Moonlapse.

 

I wonder whether it would be possible to create a network that somehow increases the costs of Chinese-style censorship. It would also be nice to know how to help Chinese dissidents circumvent Party control.

It would also be nice to know how to help Chinese dissidents circumvent Party control.

I've actually thought about this. The thing is, if can be made known to dissidents, the government could also discover it and take corresponding measures. You have to assume that it would be able to work, even with the Chinese government's full knowledge..