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Wikipedia Won't Bow to Chinese Censors
truthsearch writes "Jimmy Wales has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive Wikipedia entries. He challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing. Wikipedia has been banned from China since last October. Whereas Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo went into the country accepting some restrictions on their online content, Wales believes it must be all or nothing for Wikipedia. 'We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information.'"
...publically traded company? ;)
It's easy to take the moral high road when you're not responsible for anything or anyone.
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Interesting equivalence there between practicing holistic medicine and lobbing missiles into a city. -5 insightful on that one.
Yes, actually, he did make an interesting comparison, and it saddens me to see him modded as a troll while your one-liner gets +5 insightful...
You either blame the group or its members. You can't pick and choose based on the sin-of-the-week.
In the case of Hezbolah, the actions of a few radical separatists, quite possibly not even members of Hezbolah but just entirely different radical separatists with more testosterone than brains, get attributed to an internationally unpopular political party.
So what conclusion do you get if you apply that same reasoning for Falun Gong?
The GP dared to go there. And got bitch-slapped for it. But as Bill Watterson once said (via Calvin) of his fight with his syndicate over merchandising when they accused him of seeing the issue in black-and-white, "Sometimes that's just the way things are!"