response to Rebecca MacKinnon and Josh Cochran's post Internet Intervention
Are you kidding? Have you ever even been to China or done business there??
Commented on June 15, 2007 by - eastandwest
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response to Rebecca MacKinnon and Josh Cochran's post Internet Intervention
Commented on June 15, 2007 by - eastandwest
Are you serious?? This is one of the most juvenile and ill-informed articles I think I've ever read. I can appreciate the sentiment to be sure. But, the US doesn't dictate policy to other countries. Nor can US companies dictate policy to foreign governments (imagine if it were the reverse: a Chinese Search engine dictating how we receive information according to their government beliefs). US companies can't tell the Chinese government what to do, anymore than China can control how the US government manages our country.
We, as Americans, can tell them all we want about how to improve their lifestyle, and certainly freedom of speech is at the core of our belief system (and that's why we choose to live here...and not China!).
Do you think the Chinese government is swayed one bit by what American companies/citizens think they should do? Have you ever been to China? Do you know anything about the culture or government? Do you study their economy or their political landscape? Your article reads from someone naiively-American (the kind the rest of the world continually ridicules for ignorance). Before suggesting that the US, or a US company, should tell another country what they should do ("..unless we tell companies what we want them to do" -- in China??) -- you should probably educate yourself...alot.
Do you think if you organized a boycott of Google, then Google would be forced, and therefore able to convince China to change their political policy? And the entire country would change their censorship/communication laws because your organized a boycott of Google?
Seriously...if you're going to write articles, try to have an ounce of knowledge about what you're writing. I can't believe I wasted my time writing this, but I was so aghast to see something so ridiculous "published"