[Buddha-l] Google means business this time

Curt Steinmetz curt at cola.iges.org
Tue Mar 16 18:07:10 MDT 2010


You are almost certainly right in the long run. Reports are 
contradictory, but it does appear that at least for a brief window of 
time some people in China are able to access information that has 
previously been blocked completely.
Curt

Lidewij Niezink wrote:
> Wouldn't get your hopes up too high Curt. Google and conscience of any
> sort seems like intergalactic communication to me. (Possible with the
> likelihood of a black swan.)
>
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> On 16 March 2010 23:01, Curt Steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org> wrote:
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>> Good. It is unjustifiable for anyone to willingly cooperate in the
>> perpetuation of a totalitarian regime that keeps 1/6 the human race
>> living under conditions comparable to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
>> That is what google was doing so long as they were complicit in
>> controlling the flow of information to the people of China. That kind of
>> control is the heart and soul of totalitarianism, and google was doing
>> it just for the $$$.
>>
>> Hopefully this is for real this time, and hopefully it will last for
>> more than a few hours.
>>
>> Curt
>>
>> Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
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>>> According to the Wallstreet Journal Google will leave China.
>>>
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575124062948976720.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_newsreel_technology
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