Google Targeted By Anti-Censorship Movement

wormnet.org writes "An article has been posted on The Observer reporting that Google has been targeted by the group "Students For A Free Tibet" because of the internet company's relationship with the Chinese government. The article states: "... more than 50,000 letters have been sent to Google bosses in recent days protesting at the company's decision to censor searches on its google.cn website in line with Beijing's wishes. Protesters have also staged public 'break-ups' with Google at demonstrations outside many of its offices around the world.""

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Re:This makes their efforts look bad

[mboverload]

Because they SAID they would NOT BE EVIL. You can't say that, then do it. Dumbass.

Re:Google company

[jcr]

This goverment had the backing of the USA, after all this goverment, that censored, tortured and killed people was fighting the "big bad comunist".

Well, don't gloss over the fact that Communism was indeed both big, and bad. It's still bad, just not nearly as likely to expand as it once appeared.

It is regrettable that in the process of fighting communism, the USA made alliances with various criminal regimes. Of course, the USA once made an alliance with probably the second-worst mass murderer of all time, Josef Stalin, in order to defeat the #3 mass murderer.

Nevertheless, the mistakes of the past are no reason to shirk the responsibility of fighting the criminal regimes that remain. It's simply apalling that the United States has left the people of Cuba to rot under Castro, for example.

-jcr