How to get blocked by Google China, part two.
(Write this down, folks. I'm actually going to say something good about CNN and Lou Dobbs Tonight.)
Kitty Pilgrim, in a segment on Lou Dobbs Tonight last night called 'Dot Commies,' began to make an excellent point that even free traders such as myself should acknowledge:
PILGRIM: Now, the congressman goes on to add that Americans were told that globalization and free trade would make countries like China more democratic. But recent decisions by Microsoft, Yahoo!, now Google show otherwise.
I'll fix that last sentence for her.
Recent decisions by Microsoft, Yahoo!, now Google show that, in fact, the opposite is true. Globalization and free trade seem to be making the rest of the world, and certainly the companies that deal with the communist countries, more ANTI-democratic.
The Times Online has a pretty good article on Google getting in bed with the devil here.
posted by The Last American at 9:29:00 AM
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"Recent decisions by Microsoft, Yahoo!, now Google show that, in fact, the opposite is true. Globalization and free trade seem to be making the rest of the world, and certainly the companies that deal with the communist countries, more ANTI-democratic."
So? Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. The value of democracy is as the superstructure of liberty, nothing more nor less. China is liberalizing economically. If they were to liberalize socially but never held another election, so what?
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