Personally, I don’t give a rats ass what the hell Google does when it goes to China. MSN and Yahoo, from what I heard on Fox N Friends yesterday morning, have been restricting access to users in China for years now — so way is the fuss being made about Google?
US congressman takes Google to task on China
Google will be called to task in Washington next month following a controversial decision by the internet search engine to launch a China-based version of its website that will censor results to avoid angering the country’s Communist government.
The decision by Chris Smith, a Republican congressman from New Jersey who chairs a House subcommittee on Human Rights, to call for a February 16 hearing to examine the operating procedures of US internet companies in China, represents the first signs of what could become a serious backlash against Google and other internet companies in Washington that are perceived as capitulating to the Chinese government.
Mr Smith on Wednesday accused Google of “collaborating .. with persecutors” who imprison and torture Chinese citizens “in the service of truth”.
Let’s worry about what the hell is going on in OUR country please. I don’t want MY tax money spent on any more fracking useless hearings. Google is a business and if you don’t want businesses to be able to earn money from China, then band them — ALL OF THEM and shut the hell up.
Work on something that’s worthwhile, like explaining why someone like this and this can get and did get more time in prison than this person.
Get back to the work of running this country. It’s bad enough we have the above and the Anti-American Civil Liberaties Union doing everything they can for all other people around the world except the citizens they orginally vowed to help — we don’t need our “elected” officials in Washington doing the same thing.
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Where is the law written that says a US company can’t adjust their business to match the culture of another country? Is it wrong that McDonald’s sells alcohol in other countries? They have PORRIDGE on the menu in England, should they be called before Congress for that?
If it breaks a law, hurts someone, causes that country to be a danger to the world, fine…but removing some of their content to suit a country? Why would that be illegal, or even unethical? Not every country is the United States, much as we might like it to be.
This sounds like a double-standard to me. What am I missing here???
Good points!
Should we stop wearing clothes that we buy at all of our local chain stores just so we won’t appear to be capitulating with the Chineses government.
Give it a break folks and get on with the real problems…hunger, homes for the homeless, child abuse, and the list goes on and on….This sounds like a bunch of foolishness to me.
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