Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Moreover, Google's decision to engage with the Chinese is hardly
self-evidently "evil". It is a judgment call (by us 3rd-parties - Google
have their own rationale', I'm sure) as to whether the net of this decision
is morally positive or negative. I think it will be a good thing in the
long run and help accelerate the collapse of Communism in China and the
assist the ascent of Capitalism. You may disagree, but to dismiss it out
of hand as "evil" is ridiculous.
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Tim Daneliuk
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Hummm, living in a neo-communist state, ruled by dictat, where the
Police use Google to monitor newsgroup activity, scan past postings for
keywords etc and then visit on the strength of what they have read (as I
have been visited recently) all I can say is your view is very nieve.

Niel.

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage
where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the
citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest
periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. " : Ayn
Rand in "The Nature of Government"