Comments on: Don’t be evil, Comrade? http://www.swankyconservative.com/dont-be-evil-comrade/ There's nothing a martini can't fix Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Swanky Conservative » Blog Archive » China Syndrome http://www.swankyconservative.com/dont-be-evil-comrade/#comment-13401 Swanky Conservative » Blog Archive » China Syndrome Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:51:36 +0000 http://www.swankyconservative.com/2006/01/25/dont-be-evil-comrade/#comment-13401 [...] Pajamas Media is tracking bloggers’ reaction to the Google-China deal. Dean Esmay’s handcuffed Google graphic is good and is probably a more effective graphical statement than my Google Earth: China Edition graphic. [...] [...] Pajamas Media is tracking bloggers’ reaction to the Google-China deal. Dean Esmay’s handcuffed Google graphic is good and is probably a more effective graphical statement than my Google Earth: China Edition graphic. [...]

]]> By: Travis http://www.swankyconservative.com/dont-be-evil-comrade/#comment-13343 Travis Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:19:16 +0000 http://www.swankyconservative.com/2006/01/25/dont-be-evil-comrade/#comment-13343 "...All instances where corporations went along with the facist oppression of a nation’s people in order to be the ones making the bucks." It would be problematic for oppressive governments to be seen by their citizens as restricting access to information. Happily for the Communists, Google will do it for them. What is ironic about this Commie-coddling is that the ChiCom’s capitalist lackeys may be missing out on the larger, long-term opportunity. Interactive technologies are moving much faster than the censors’ ability to keep up with them, like handheld and peer-to-peer technologies. Companies that stake a claim in this space are positioned to be hugely successful when the Great Firewall of China eventually comes tumbling down. Read more at http://austinvitw.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-whore-of-babylon.html “…All instances where corporations went along with the facist oppression of a nation’s people in order to be the ones making the bucks.”

It would be problematic for oppressive governments to be seen by their citizens as restricting access to information. Happily for the Communists, Google will do it for them.

What is ironic about this Commie-coddling is that the ChiCom’s capitalist lackeys may be missing out on the larger, long-term opportunity. Interactive technologies are moving much faster than the censors’ ability to keep up with them, like handheld and peer-to-peer technologies. Companies that stake a claim in this space are positioned to be hugely successful when the Great Firewall of China eventually comes tumbling down.

Read more at http://austinvitw.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-whore-of-babylon.html

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