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Google had recently labeled Taiwan as a part of China!
Let the censoring continue.  Communist countries can only keep their slaves down when they keep them ignorant from information and education.  Canada attempted to do that, but the internet and close proximity to the USA let the subjects there get information, made educated decisions and throw out the socialists (liberals).

I’m not really entering either side of this debate, but I feel obliged to put forward Google’s argument -

That is, they were faced with a choice between

A) no Google in China at all (from the article - “Google’s China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine")
B) Google, but with the censorship

In opting for B), they clearly stated they thought they were choosing the lesser of two evils (i.e. some information is better than none) - and in addition, their searches clearly label what is censored information - i.e. it hasn’t just ‘disappeared’; people will know it’s been axed.

Hope this helps…

Nope, doesn’t help.  Let’s pose another choice:

A. Limited listening of phone coversations to people within the US making phone calls to know terrorists
B. Another 9-11 attack

Here is a little tidbit on Google’s political leanings:

A USA Today campaign finance analysis found that, of the company’s overall political contributions, 98 percent went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors.

The online search company’s employees gave $207,650 to federal candidates during last year’s election campaign, which includes the White House race between Democrat John Kerry and the winning incumbent Republican, President Bush. The contributions were up from just $250 in 2000 when Google was a start-up, according to the paper.

So they support the ACLU and others against the “repressive” Bush Regime and won’t turn over search results, but they also support the Chinese Government that slaughtered and jailed millions, and most notably had those tanks things running over Student protesters a few years back.  Remember that?

So it is only evil Republican companies that will bend their morality in search of profits at the expense of people under the brutal hand of dictatorships around the world?  Where is Cindy Sheehan protesting Google for repressing the rights of Chinese people to have freedom of speech?  Oh, that is right, she is in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez.

Of course not, they are communist.  We need to say that in the public square.  No more allowing them to hide under cover of “civil liberties”.  They use that as a lie.  My 10th grade History teacher mentioned this in class (what a memory Chief) that groups make up names that overstate, understate or mis-state their true purpose.

I love the Amnesty International folks.  Where are they?  Why aren’t they protesting Google’s decision?  The ACLU?  The other left wing organizations?

Oh, that is right.  They only care about rights when it comes to some woman in the US’s right to kill her fetus, or the right of some nutjob to not have his kid say the pledge, or the right of some murderer like Tookie Williams, or the right of suspected terrorists to make phone calls to Al Qaeda operatives without us listening…

Freedom of Speech in China, repression from Saddam or the Taliban, Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, nah, they are just good guys trying to run their country the best they can.

Let’s see if I get any Google search results for “hypocritical sellouts”.

Google get’s alot of mileage out of their so-called policy: “Don’t be Evil”.

And yet what do we find?  Google covering for illegal pornographers, and helping communists repress their citizens.

I’m switching my homepage to Yahoo right now.

[...] Now, however, since Google agreed to modify their search results so that they could gain access to China’s market place they’ve taken the above statement down. [...]