Re: [ga] google agrees to censorship

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's already been exposed that the reason google doesn't want to turn over the search records has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with protecting their intellectual property. I agree with you getting into china is worth some concessions, if you're google.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hugh Dierker 
  To: kidsearch ; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:31 AM
  Subject: Re: [ga] google agrees to censorship


  Let us take this in a best light concept.

  First of all Google is not refusing to turn over records. They are using a due process objection to ensure that it is done in accordance with the law. (this is wise on two counts; 1st it protects them from liability should it be a wrongful disclosure and, 2nd it looks really good in the media - like they are sticking up for their clients and stockholders) The immediate turning over of inside information regarding the activity of their search discrimination process, must have some real strict perameters attached. I would say a month of twenty lawyers.

  Next is China. When these two concepts are thrown up against the wall - cooperate with the commies vs. obstruct the Americans it looks bad. But the USgov has long had a policy of appeasement toward the restrictions in doing business with asian communists. We have long held the belief that it is better to get a toe hold rather than no hold at all. It is quite important to keep in mind that we are talking education and knowledge here. If you give a student a book and say he must read chptr. 4,5,6,7 and leave it at that, that is what he will do. If you then add, "and you may not read 10,9,2,1". I garaundamtee you he will read 10,9,2,1.
  (Here is food for thought; assume that a great deal of free enterprise in China is blackmarket, assume further that much of the blackmarket is controlled by generals and politicians in China. Now if the only way to obtain that which Google censors there is in the black market, who profits by the censorship?) So if we look at the censorship having nothing to do with thought protection but simply socio-economics it makes perfect sense.

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  kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html

    Google doesn't turn over records to the us gov, but bows to chinese censorship.


    Chris McElroy
    http://www.mostwantednewspaper.com 





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