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Old 2010-01-23, 03:50   Link #5621
Vexx
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Originally Posted by Nosauz View Post
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...n_AboveLEFTTop

On C-Span tonight Clinton called for freedom of information yet did not call for net neutrality. The irony of her statement just made me sad, with out net neutrality there is no freedom of information because that information is no longer free. It clearly was a potshot at China, and after the drumming at the Coppenhagen Environment Summit it's understandable that the U.S. is trying to maintain dominance.
The annoying part of this little Google/China/US tiff over the internet is that the "censoring" laments are totally co-opting the actual problem that got Google pissed: the coordinated hacking attempt of Google servers by what Google thinks are either Chinese government agents or supported elements. THAT is why Google is considering pulling out. Google is also concerned that one or more of their employees in China may be working for the government.

So underneath it all, Google is concerned about the privacy of their users and espionage of their internal systems technologies.

Turning off the internet filters is just Google's biggest tool to respond with before just turning off the power in their Chinese operations.

China is undergoing the process of learning what it is to be the "center" of the world or even part of the world ... its going to be much harder to play the "interfering with internal affairs" card and expect to get away with it. They're encountering this in almost every part of their economic sectors (food, copyright, quality control, products, consumer concerns, etc).
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