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Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man
An anonymous reader writes "After a Google user posted a profane picture of the Hindu saint Shivaji, Indian authorities contacted Google to ask for his IP address. Google complied. He was arrested and is reported to have been beaten by a lathi and asked to use the same bowl to eat and to use in the toilet.
Not surprisingly, Google is a keen to play this down as Yahoo is being hauled over the coals by US Congress for handing over IP addresses and emails to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese democracy activist being jailed." Readers are noting that these are 2 unrelated cases — the latter is several months old.
Of course, I have such low expectations for liberals anyway, so I have no one but myself to blame for being so disappointed in them.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I do think it was bad. I think it's an indication that we need to get rid of anonymity so next time the right person will be apprehended.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
So what do you call a Chinaman without being raked over the coals by the PC Police? And why are China men offended by "Chinaman" but English men aren't offended by being called "Englishmen" and Irish men aren't offended by being called "Irishmen?"
This topic would have bothered me yesterday, especially the part about the guy having to shit in the same bowl he eats from, but I just got off the phone with some Indian wanker that works for my mortgage company. Jesus Christ, if they have to ship a job that involves talking to Americans overseas couldn't they find some foreign assholes who actually know how to speak English? I'm starting to think that the mortgage crisis is a plot by foreigners.
Yesterday I'd have said "Google, 'do no evil' no longer applies" but today I'm cheering them! Yay google! Boo, shit-eating Indians!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
He no is does english speaker very goodly. He work for my mortgage company. I just talk him to phone and it ware off, now I no can speak any language accept BASIC.
Indian mortgage wanker need eat poo. I hope it him be.
-Shiva
PS- Google on Indian wanker, more accurate description of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj nude.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Because "Chinaman" was the term preferred by racist white Americans responsible for various atrocities against Chinese immagrants. These things are, of course, usually a bit more complicated than simple hatred for hatred's sake (The Chinese Massacre of 1875 was a labor dispute), but in the end, murder is murder.
It's the same reason why the term 'Nigger' is unacceptable even though it's just a mispronunciation of the Spanish word for Black: it's associated with horrible historic brutality that the vast majority of us (you excluded, apparently) acknowledge as wrong.