Re: Google

Matthew Hennig <matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Angelic Devil <aaron.ginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Matthew Hennig <matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Angelic Devil <aaron.ginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Edward M. Kennedy" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Matthew Hennig" <matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

US Version:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

Chinese Version:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

Disgusting that an American company would do something such as
this.


Dude who cares? Do you honestly think Google is the only
company willing to take it in the behind for the sake of a one
billion plus market? From their perspective, they'd rather
gain a foothold now and work for change than vice versa.

It shows them to be rather hypocritical, though. After Google
refused our government's request for information based on
freedom of speech and privacy issues,

As American *citizens*, the owners and employees and
customers of the company have those *rights*.

they go right off to China and do their bidding in
blocking material from the citizens there. Microsoft has done
the same thing with censoring people on their MSN blogging site.
They won't be the only one either, but its still disgusting.

What is disturbing is that a *sovereign* government
has the *power* to make MSN and Google do that. What
is disturbing is that the Chinese government recognizes
less rights than ours.

Don't you dare pass this off on private corporations.
It's *governments* that fsck up in this manner.


Exactly. Businesses exist to offer a good or service to as many
people willing to purchase that good or service as possible.
Governments seek to restrict these same businesses to protect the
"common" (read "their own") good.

Of course, to a fascist like Henning, big business and government
are one and the same...

Hmm, a fascist like me, huh. Big business and government are the
same? Wow, you sure like to put words in my mouth to try and fit
your little attack points. Congratulations.


If you support the current Republican economic agenda, you're a
fascist in the mold of Mussolini (not Hitler).

Sure, wanting to reduce taxes and stimulate the economy were certainly
the key platforms that Mussolini was for. After all, fascists want
individual responsibility through things like a personal savings account
instead of social security. Yeah, you got it, dude.


Yes, a personal savings account is fascism. Fascism is basically
state-managaged big business, which is exactly what a personal savings
account is, particularly since it would mainly benefit large financial
companies and do nothing for the individual investor.

A person interested in freedom would advocate the elimination of
social security which, in turn, would allow investors to manage their
money in whatever way they chose. But Republicans aren't interested
in freedom; they're interested in appeasing, and subsidizing, big
business.


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"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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