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China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

Posted by Soulskill on from the who-wears-the-pants-in-this-family dept.

suraj.sun writes with this snippet from an Associated Press report: "China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or 'pay the consequences,' giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. 'If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences,' Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of China's annual legislature. ... 'Whether they leave or not is up to them,' Li said. 'But if they leave, China's Internet market is still going to develop.' ... Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people. 'If there is information that harms stability or the people, of course we will have to block it,' he said."

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  1. Re:See, this is what i was talking about by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Informative

    And European and Asian companies and countries don't suck up to China? Nice try at going after the US, but the fact is everyone is sucking up to China, even countries who are most threatened by China regionally and strategically, like Russia.

  2. Re:Bullshit. by jcr · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've seen estimates in the 77 million range. Whatever the exact figure, he killed more of his own people than any other tyrant in history. Pol Pot killed a higher proportion of his population, though.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  3. Re:Bullshit. by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Informative

    did mao kill more than 10 million chinese ?

    Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, in which an estimated 20 million people had died from widespread famine. But Mao and the other lying bastards were saying that the deaths were the result of natural disasters
    Then of course there were the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution, also Mao and his cronys' brainfart. There 750.000 to 1.500.000 people were killed. The massive destruction of Chinese cultural heritage is just the cherry on top of the cake.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  4. Re:See, this is what i was talking about by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Europeans countries don't turn other countries upside down for a profit? Since when?

    Nestle. Unilever. Airbus. OMV. Eni. Siemens. One can make a list of European companies as active at making profits abroad as long or longer than the US companies.

    For every United Fruit the US has had, the Europeans have had a Belgian Congo or British Raj.

  5. Re:See, this is what i was talking about by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 3, Informative

    European countries don't stage coups or invade other countries?

    Suez Crisis. Allied Force in 1999. Iraq 1990. Iraq 2003. Afghanistan 2001. Algeria.

    The very problems in West and Central Africa that have led to wars over minerals and child soldiers are because of European Imperialism in Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries.

    The US has had one African colony, if you can even call it a colony, Liberia.

    American Imperialism in Central and South America has a fraction of the body count of European Imperialism in Africa.

    So get off your high horse.