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."

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Re:See, this is what i was talking about

[unity100]

european countries do not stage coups, do not invade other countries, do not buy out laws to kill local competition in other languages. leave that aside, some very important regulations were specifically brought to some fields with european incentive, like the regulations and labeling system to make sure that diamonds used in jewelry sector doesnt come from factions in african countries that employ child soldiers to suppress locales and keep power.

u.s. on the other hand, has been implementing coups and takeovers and installing petty dictators as a 'policy' since the last 60 years, as innumerable countries in south america and africa can testify.

Re:Bullshit.

[Attila Dimedici]

Democrats and Republicans sorta swapped platforms in the 1960s as a result of the Civil Rights movement).

Not really, the Democrats just got better at hiding their motives. A larger percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than of Democrats. Yet the Democrats get the credit for its passage and the Republicans get blamed for opposing it (which they did not). Republicans get called rascist for refusing to treat African-Americans like children who need to be taken care of.