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Re: more news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jan 13 11:39:01 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <55117F5B-6E2F-4813-BD9B-E984CCA0763B@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:38:28 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
>
>> I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with
>> this. I was
>> very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results,
>> although I can
>> understand why they did so from a business standpoint... it seemed
>> to go
>> against the google mantra of "do no evil"...
>>
>> I'm skeptical if they'll go through with it...
>
> According to their spokesperson, they have already stopped censoring.
>
> That sounds a bit iffy to me. It's one thing to say "we want to
> stop censoring, and will pull out if you don't let us", and "we are
> breaking the law, nah, nah, nah".
>
I assume that this is coupled with the message that they will pull out
of China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8455712.stm
I think it is the modern corporate equivalent of recalling your
ambassador.
Regards
Marshall
> You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly
> breaking a law is bad joo-joo.
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ken Chase [mailto:math@sizone.org]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM
>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>> Subject: more news from Google
>>>
>>> I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous
>>> position/postings
>>> having read this article.
>>>
>>> I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :) </cynic>
>>>
>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
>>>
>>> Well played, google?
>>>
>>> /kc
>>> --
>>> Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284 - Toronto CANADA
>>> Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS
>>> @151 Front St. W.
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