I don't understand what all the fuss is about Google and their decision to offer China internet search. I saw the protests on my local news last night. I couldn't help but wonder where the protester's clothes were made, where the markers that made their signs were made. Google a hypocrite? Well who the hell isn't?
I started searching this morning via Google and found things like this.
Michele puke Malkin is calling Google, Gaggle.
Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog, has condemned Google's announcement as a 'black day' for China. For a company whose motto is 'don't do evil', it takes some yellow belly and some gall to do what Google has done. As well as a complete absence of soul, responsibility and conscience.
Techdigger reports that sites are now ditching Google Adsense, the contextual advertising program, from their pages in protest at Google's decision to help the Chinese government oppress its own people.
The BBC News website spoke to bloggers in China and Hong Kong to get their perspective.
The problem is not that Google is censoring its search service, it is that China doesn't have free speech.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
U.S. citizens should be outraged at the fact our own government is seeking Google's search records.
And I cannot even get on the Onions website from my library.
China is the second-biggest holder of U.S. government debt, after Japan, with holdings of $249.8 billion.
We have to borrow money from them just to pay the interest on it. Nobody is outraged about that?!
Boycotting products made in China makes alot more sense to me at this point than a boycott of Google.
Bloomberg tells us that China's economy grew at 9.9% last year, overtaking France's in total output. That puts China in the number five position, just behind Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States. Economists expect China to run past Britain this year. Then, it will be snapping at Germany's heels.
Bernake's Dillemma, from Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/...
I'm not an economist or even pretend to understand all the implications of our debt to China. Personally I have a strong aversion to any debt, and have just a small mortgage myself.