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Why do the feds care if Google helps China censor??
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ibchillin
Feb 15, 06 6:07
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http://news.yahoo.com/...te/us_china_internet

The feds have their panties in a bunch over Google, Cisco, Yahoo, etc possibly aiding China at censoring their people. My question: why do you care? So what if China doesn't want their kids to surf porn, why is that bad??

"Cooperation with tyranny should not be embraced for the sake of profits," said Smith, R-N.J., chairman of the House International Relations subcommittee on global human rights.

.......hmmm, so WalMart embedded so tightly with China and it's sweatshop labor is OK though (profits!), as long as we don't block the Chinese people from surfing "bad" websites (on computers they don't own because they can't afford them)
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ajfranke
Feb 15, 06 8:01
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It is an interesting issue that sets up the often repeated dilema.

In a drug company situation, what do you do with a drug that will save thousands of lives, but for every hundred people the drug saves, it will also kill one person?

In this situation, Google and company seem to be vastly improving the information flow in China, but only at the price of stopping information flow on some topics.

These tradeoffs are just difficult.
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Tridiot
Feb 15, 06 14:26
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Where do we draw the line between US companies following US ideals, and foreign laws? Should we just issue laws saying no US company can do business with China because they might do something that isn't advancing the call of Democracy and free flow of information?

Do we as US consumers want to do business with those companies though? The answer is obviously "Almost no one cares."
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ibchillin
Feb 15, 06 14:55
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I think it's a waste of US taxpayer dollars bandying around with the Chinese about this, as well as delaying Google and company getting into China to do business (bad for the stocks and our 401K, if the delay is long)...
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Tridiot
Feb 15, 06 15:07
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I've said it a few times on ST (in threads about the Middle East), getting the "bad guys" to do business with us is the absolute best way to spread free market and democracy across the world.

Once we get China hardcore hooked up to the ol' WWW, then they will find ways of getting access to the data the government doesn't want them to see.
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vitus979
Feb 15, 06 15:43
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My question: why do you care? So what if China doesn't want their kids to surf porn, why is that bad??

It's a little more serious than internet porn.

Lantos, D-Calif., repeatedly asked whether Yahoo had contacted the family of Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who critics say Yahoo helped police identify and convict after he criticized human rights abuses in China.

You think Yahoo was A-OK in doing that?







"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
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ibchillin
Feb 15, 06 19:32
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Yahoo denied it, but if they did sure it's bad... However, WalMart and hundreds (thousands?) of other US businesses going over to China have to do "bad" things too (follow Chinese law, different from our laws). There are lots of bad things that go on over there. They're not forcing US companies to pay fair wage to the sweatshop employees, so why all the big concern for following Chinese law?

The feds are just picking their fight, and I think that's garbage. They're inconsistent!

Last edited by: ibchillin: Feb 15, 06 19:32
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