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Google Stands Ground on Google.cn
nmccart writes "Google gave testimony on Friday to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. They discussed their decision to build google.cn in China. Elliot Schrage, the vice president for global communications and public affairs at Google describes how these China-based servers fit in to Google's mantra of 'Don't be evil.' Google hopes to use this as an opportunity to help bring global censorship into the spotlight of American politics. Will it work?"
Yeah. Its like saying in the early 40's: we decided to build death camps in Germany, complete with gas chambers and crematoriums, not because we agree with these things but because we want to put the spotlight on this whole terrible death camp thing and make people come to terms with it. Bullshit.
It's really fun to see this kind of drama in US. I'm Chinese. Does Chinese people in China care about google? NOBODY CARES! They have their own searching engine (baidu.com). Either google goes into China now or never go in by losing competition. Besides, I strongly support government censorship on Internet since there are too much craps over there. Think about your kids browsing on the Internet in US. If my son was in China, I felt much better and safer. I see enough craps in US, kids bring gun to shoot teacher (free to own gun), child prono, phone interception, poor people in Katrina, proud to conquer the Iraq which has nothing to do with US. And losing competition with China by complaining job lose, trade deficit and China yuan's exchange rate. What I see is the symptom falling down country. Read history you will realize the fact. Sadly American history knowledge really sucks.