Yahoo, Microsoft FILTHY traitors but Google stands up

Traitors to freedom and democracy, that is.

Google may be run by Liberals, but they did the right
thing (as opposed to the filth who run Yahoo and censor
the internet for COMMUNIST CHINA and Howdy-doodie Bill Gates
at Microsoft) and re-instated Taiwan as a country and not
a possession of Communist China
I hope Google sticks by this;
LIBERAL-run corporations are disgusting in their zeal to obey
Communist China at all costs.

From: http://www.physorg.com/news7400.html

China upset with Google's Taiwan map

Mainland media control over Chinese-language content took a blow
Wednesday with state press claiming rage after Mountain View,
Calif.-based Internet giant Google removed referrals to Taiwan as a
province.

Chinese media reports said "Google.com, world's largest Internet
search engine, deleted the words 'Taiwan, a province of the People's
Republic of China' on a map of Taiwan linked to its maps search engine
maps.google.com. This has drawn rage from Chinese officials and the
people."

Google made the changes "under pressure of extremists in Taiwan's
pan-Green camp (a pro-independence alliance between the ruling
Democratic Progressive Party and the hard-line Taiwan Solidarity Union
party)," Xinhua reported.

Company spokeswoman Debbie Frost claims the changes were just a
"regular update" of all of the site's map pages, not a deliberate
effort targeting the Taiwan page.

The backlash on Google's mainland business operations remains to be
seen, with analysts monitoring China's latest attempt to impose its
version of Taiwan sovereignty on the borderless world of the Internet.

While China claims the island of Taiwan, a handful of countries in
Latin America, Africa and the Pacific Rim recognize its democratically
elected government as an independent nation.

Companies' obligation to espouse a host government's political policy
rather than follow its laws and China's ability to control
Chinese-language content are two of the big-picture issues.

The best-case scenario on possible repercussions would be for the
incident to quickly die down as a minor flap. Kai-fu Lee, Google's new
country manager for China after a nasty separation from rival
Microsoft, has the connections and experience in the mainland tech
sector necessary to make this a minor glitch in the overall long-term
business relationship.

Chinese officialdom has many options at its disposal to make things
difficult for Google if it decides to make an example of the
search-engine giant. Increased bureaucratic red tape, fines, even
orders to shut their doors are feasible options that have all been
used on tech and telecom firms not toeing the regulatory line.

Until now, major U.S. Internet companies have been careful to abide by
China's rule, including Microsoft's Web site MSN, which actually
became the target of activists outside China for abiding too closely
to the Chinese authorities' rules for keeping a lid on free speech.

By labeling Asia's map against China's wishes in favor of Taiwan,
however, Google has not only triggered the wrath of the government but
has shaken the national pride of many Chinese Internet users as well
at a time when fierce patriotism has found many of its nationals
taking to the streets to demonstrate their allegiance. In fact,
Chinese media have been reporting that many cyberspace chatters are
now suggesting a boycott of the search engine's Chinese service in
retaliation against Google's labeling of territories.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International
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