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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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Testing the system however shows that while there is some censorship, it's not anywhere near perfectly effective.Visit First Cultural Industries
There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General LuddComment
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"Like this couldn't have happened in the U.S.
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Google wasn't forced to do a damn thing. They chose to censor their stuff.
Pretty evil.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Google:
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And why I use Altavista.
Man, I'm old.
I drink to one other, and may that other be he, to drink to another, and may that other be me!Comment
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Google and China
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Precisely. Which makes one wonder what might happen stateside if the feds and/or other government entities apply enough pressure to access their records (for whatever reason).Originally posted by DanS
Google wasn't forced to do a damn thing. They chose to censor their stuff.
Pretty evil.
Gatekeeper"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — ConfuciusComment
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Well, given the choice of doing some censoring, or being blocked, the former is the better of the two options.Visit First Cultural Industries
There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General LuddComment
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It is a no win situation, really. Anything Google does pisses people off. At least they can fight off the US Government in the courts, but what could they have done in China, Despotic country that it is?You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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Google knows they have the law on their side in the US. OTOH, they know they don't have that luxury in China or in Germany (wrt to hate speech).Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Precisely. Which makes one wonder what might happen stateside if the feds and/or other government entities apply enough pressure to access their records (for whatever reason).
Gatekeeper“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Well, whatever happened to standing by one's principles? What's Google's corporate saying? "First, do no harm," or something like that?
Hmm. I don't see it the same way, but maybe they figure it's better Chinese Internet users get to use Google for *some* things, if not all. Then again, they might be looking at it from a strictly business viewpoint, which is generally amoral in my experience (profits come first and foremost).
Gatekeeper"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — ConfuciusComment
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