Thursday, January 26, 2006
In the same way Third World backwaters glom on to Western technology to threaten us with weapons (even the nuclear kind) that they could never develop on their own, Western corporations are now threatening the gains for international understanding that could be made through the expansion of the information superhighway by helping the world's largest repression-state keep its people under wraps:
Boston Globe: Censored searches - For China website, Google bows to Beijing's rules
Pajamas Media has a site dedicated to following blogosphere reaction on this issue. Lots of good links there: China Syndrome
Google Image Search "Tiananmen Square":
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Crap. Do you think they subpoenaed the records for How+to+kill+Ashlee+Simpson?