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US Lawmakers to Keep Google Out of China?
caese writes "USATODAY is reporting that lawmakers in the US are proposing legislation that would keep Google and others out of China. From the article: 'Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is drafting a bill that would force Internet companies including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to keep vital computer servers out of China and other nations the State Department deems repressive to human rights.'"
The real problem here is that this move is idiotic. US Internet companies will simply open up shell companies (if they haven't done it already) to operate their branch sites on soil that the US deems non-rights compliant. In short, it's a waste of time. Congress has much better ways to makes its displeasure with China's continued human rights abuses known than forbidding Google to operate in China.
That all being said, Google is still a friend to tyrants, happily profiting from China's fear of its citizens hearing the truth.
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Given the repeated insinuation that American Software Engineers are worthless in comparison to the great and glorious India Institute of Technology graduates (after all, why else have an H-1b program to make Americans unemployed and bring them here), I think that end for Google or any other software company is unaviodable at this point
Well, outsourcing your lowest-level jobs to India is one thing. Moving there and having your new board of directors babbling "durka durka durrr" all day is something entirely different.
Just because we import more than we export to China does not mean that our exports are unprofitable, quite the contrary.
Actually, that's exactly what it means. Profitability is (what you sell)-(what you buy). If you are buying more than you are selling, you will NEVER be profitable. Anything else is just obscufacation of the real central matter- that it's unprofitable for a first world nation to engage in trade of any sort with a nation that has a lower standard of living. Individual companies may prosper- but they are taking those profits at the expense of the rest of the economy, and are thus TRAITORS- and should be treated as such. I personally support the freezing of assets and the exile of all C-level executives of such companies to the nation they really are working for- in this case, China.
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Shouldn't our citizens abide by minimum standards of American spelling?
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