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January 25, 2006

Sucking Red Chinese dick

First it was Bill Gates, now it's Google

Leading internet company Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China's fast-growing market.

Google has offered a Chinese-language version of its search engine for years but users have been frustrated by government blocks on the site.

The company is setting up a new site - Google.cn - which it will censor itself to satisfy the authorities in Beijing.

Google argued it would be more damaging to pull out of China altogether.

Bull.

Posted by Darleen at January 25, 2006 01:22 PM

Comments

- My best guess is that Google, which has shown its very Liberal underpinnings quite clearly in lots of other ways, would say something like; "Well we'd be trying to apply our social values to another sovereign country, which would show insensetivity on our part to demand freedom of speech".

Translation. "This could cost us a ton of fucking coin, so ideology suddenly goes out the window"....Besides, even with the usual Liberal triple sommersault tortured logic, there's no way they could pin it on Bush, so its fine. Notice once again the irony is lost on the "elite" left. *Feh*

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at January 25, 2006 05:38 PM

Seems to me a little censored google is better than no google at all.

It's an imperfect world....

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at January 25, 2006 09:13 PM

Carl

I disagree. The US holds all the cards in the information age, and we've run it according to our moral imperative -- Information needs to be free. Even the MSM has had to wake up to the fact they are no longer the exclusive purveyors of information which they shape to their own agenda. Why should we cater to Red China's insistence on pretending that words like "democracy" and "liberty" don't exist? We have the power -- China should either accept the terms of being in the information age, or be isolated from the 'net.

Posted by: Darleen at January 25, 2006 10:52 PM

Whatever happend to "do no evil"?

Great headline btw! hehe

Posted by: Digger at January 25, 2006 11:38 PM

I tend to stay away from moral imperatives m'self. They get in the way of clear thinking.

And I don't think the US has a lock on the info age.

Information is transnational, even the Chinese can't stop it. Not really. Ordinary Chinese are as technically savvy as most Americans; if they get Google, they'll get the information.

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at January 26, 2006 07:53 AM

"I tend to stay away from moral imperatives m'self. They get in the way of clear thinking."

- Or to paraphrase another great American statesman - "Why hell darlin'....Once you get past the ethics, morals, and lyin' the rest is a piece of cake..." - J.R.Ewing

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at January 26, 2006 08:32 AM

True enough Hunter. Like I said, it's an imperfect world; we all have to make the imperfect moral decisions of life.

The human condition.

'tis true its a pity; tis pity tis true'

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at January 27, 2006 09:33 AM

Look into murdoch's dealing with China. Boycott foxnews!

Posted by: actus at February 5, 2006 08:02 PM