Re: Yahoo, Microsoft FILTHY traitors but Google stands up


Rich wrote:
> 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


Figures, those fuckin bastards are all getting thier panties wet over
the internet not recognizing their so called soverignty and ***.
I know its about image and all that but why the *** would they want to
claim a country full of slave labourer, sex workers and a balls up
political system.
Must be a piss poor super power if you gotta claim a friggen island as
one of yours.

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