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Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame
mjdroner writes "Cnet has a transcript of the House of Representatives hearing on net censorship with Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo reps. At one point, Rep. Tom Lantos asks if Microsoft is ashamed of their actions in China. Microsoft: 'We comply with legally binding orders whether it's here in the U.S. or China.' Lantos: 'Well, IBM complied with legal orders when they cooperated with Nazi Germany. Those were legal orders under the Nazi German system.'"
Since when do companys have an obligation to the "greater good" as defined by congress... and why is congress suddenly defining "good" and attempting to protect "freedom"?
Including (child) porn, libel, advertising, copyright, trademark, decency, campaign financing bullshit or any other laws regarding speech. Because, after all, Bush ~ Hitler.
This makes me want to come over and punch him... nah, I'll just wait till he goes hunting with Dick. What makes him think that his ideas of what to censor are any better that those of the Chinese government?
I think the US congress has more simularities to nazi parlement than the Chinese government.
Godwin was in fact a holocaust denier who thought that it was all a myth to help the zionists create Israel.
He hoped by making his little internet "law" he could stop people from talking about the horrors of the third reich in casual conversation on the internet.
So basically invoking Godwin's law is an anti-semitic act.
The Chinese don't have anything similar to the Guantanamo base, where alleged terrorists are held, without being given status as prisoners of war, without the right to a lawyer, in order to interrogate them with torture off American soil.
The Chinese don't fly all across Europe, picking up alleged terrorists, interrogating them in the air, in order to avoid laws on torture.
The Chinese don't invade countries, going all against the UN, without a single thread of evidence for the alleged cause, like it happened in Iraq ("Weapons of mass destruction") and has it happened in Vietnam.
The Chinese don't have bases all around the world like the Americans do.
I think it is time the Americans start to realize that AMERICA is today's Nazi regime, NOT China.
If you don't like China, get the fuck out of the country. At least learn something about the country before you open your fat Mayonaisse-stinking American mouth.
From today onward, I will search exclusively with baidu.com and actively choose non-American products. I am fucking fed up with the American claim to fame, being the lighthouse of democracy in the world. YOU ARE NOT! Your fame lies in the world's greatest genocide, in a racist history, in polluting the world.