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2006-01-26 China-Japan-Koreas

US congressman takes Google to task on China

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Posted by Frank G 2006-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why O' Why, would Google want to go Red than Dead! I hope the chicoms reverse engineer that search engine and feed it back to the west and put them out of business. They can then have tea with the Ford exec's!

Posted by smn 2006-01-26 03:24|| 2006-01-26 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Why O' Why, would Google want to go Red than Dead!

Uhh, actually you just answered it right there.

Posted by Edward Yee 2006-01-26 08:05|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2006-01-26 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 google = scum....evil money hungry moraless scum.

Don't think I'll ever use any of their services again. Between this and them not helping with the US gov'ts child porn investigation they can go screw themselves. And you can give me all the complete and utter revolting crap about them not being under court order to work with the gov't on it that you want. They have a MORAL obligation to humanity to WANT to work with the gov't on it. Not court order should be required. Every other freakin search company including yahoo, MSN and AOL agreed as soon as they were asked... and imagine it... their corporate mottos aren't even "do no evil".

Seems to me like evil people love to hide behind a facade of righteousness.... wherever you see people in "watch groups" (UN, amnesty international for example) claiming moral superiority as their motto is where you find the scum of the world hiding.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2006-01-26 08:17|| 2006-01-26 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 After Microsoft shut down some Chinese blogs at request of their government and now Google's unprincipled collaboration, I am truly disgusted. Clearly the technogeeks, who are generally fiercely independent and support free speech wholeheartedly, have ceded control to the suits at Google.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-01-26 12:46|| 2006-01-26 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Ummm, Guys
You're forgetting that the Techno-Geeks are some of the most fiercly independent souls on the planet.

It wouldn't surprise me a nano-bit to learn that after China had spread Google's new software far and wide, that a tiny "Flaw" was discovered rendering all efforts at spying or censoring ineffective (Heh, Heh)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-26 13:59|| 2006-01-26 13:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The civilized world should give the Internet death penalty to China, NorK, Saudi, Iran, Myanmar, et al.

It's actually easy to do (and there are multiple avenues to accomplish it) but doing so would require attributes such as courage and integrity among a majority of nations.

So yeah, a non-starter.

Still, regards those not-so-obvious avenues, mebbe we could bribe some Cisco guys who aren't Kool Aid MultiCulti Tranzi Phreaks into sneaking code into the routers... So I'm an incurable optimist, who'da thunk it?

Posted by .com 2006-01-26 15:13|| 2006-01-26 15:13|| Front Page Top

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