Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban?

gadgetopia writes "A news report in Forbes says that China has blocked Google with its great firewall; now the world waits to see if Australia's Minister for Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, will do the same following his outrageous attacks on Google."

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I would

[holophrastic]

Clearly Google's don't respect a country's right to manage their own laws. If I ran a country, and enacted some laws, and law a company refusing to follow my laws in my coutry, yeah I'd ban them, of course.

A country's laws, and culture, are their own to set, and not to be controlled by any outside nation. Sure we'll make enceptions for real human rights like food and water and torture. But censorship of illegal material and such doesn't come anywhere close.

Re:the banks were being deregulated

[Totenglocke]

The banks were deregulated, however, it was the CRA efforts that lead to the out of control housing bubble. There are plenty of articles online if you feel like looking it up (you don't). You're the one being partisan by screaming "OMFG CAPITALISM KILLS!!"

I never blamed Carter, I simply said that he was the one who signed the bill for the CRA but Clinton was the one who strengthened it. If you look at home prices, you'll see that they started shooting up at roughly the same time that Clinton enhanced the CRA. Bush did plenty of stupid shit (Patriot Act for one), but he didn't do anything to affect the housing bubble one way or another. I despise Republicans and Democrats for being horribly irresponsible financially, but if you can't scream "you're just an evil Republican", then you lose your only "debate" tactic.

You provide no facts, cited or not, just mindless bashing of anyone who acknowledges that irresponsible person finance on a nation-wide scale leads to economic problems. Take an economics class, read some news, and quit foaming at the mouth when someone tells you to be responsible for your actions.