Sunday, January 29, 2006
Google doesn't get it
Their vision of a world Googlized just isn't reason enough to justify becoming part of the information control in China.
The upcoming Congressional hearings about American IT companies in China will offer these companies the chance to reiterate these same excuses. I think the hearings will do little more than be a public relations event for the companies where they get the implicit blessing of the government and the more conservative members of Congress will get to mouth a few words for the consumption of their constituencies back home.
Yeah, I know, some information is better than none but the inertia seems to be moving this in the direction of legitimizing the totalitarian control. Not a good thing.
Google, the fine folks that host this blog, are running-dogs of the counterrevolutionaries. The information revolution is old news; knowledge is still freedom. ¶ 1/29/2006 01:53:00 PM
The upcoming Congressional hearings about American IT companies in China will offer these companies the chance to reiterate these same excuses. I think the hearings will do little more than be a public relations event for the companies where they get the implicit blessing of the government and the more conservative members of Congress will get to mouth a few words for the consumption of their constituencies back home.
Yeah, I know, some information is better than none but the inertia seems to be moving this in the direction of legitimizing the totalitarian control. Not a good thing.
Google, the fine folks that host this blog, are running-dogs of the counterrevolutionaries. The information revolution is old news; knowledge is still freedom. ¶ 1/29/2006 01:53:00 PM
