China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

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."

Comments

Re:See, this is what i was talking about

[Wyatt Earp]

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.

Re:Bullshit.

[jcr]

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

Re:Bullshit.

[blind biker]

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.