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That's my point: moral relativism. It's not our place to say how another country should be run by another people. It's arrogant and ignorant. Imagine Baidu c
by fnid2 17y ago
That's my point: moral relativism.
It's not our place to say how another country should be run by another people. It's arrogant and ignorant. Imagine Baidu censoring stuff in the U.S. We'd be just as angry as they are about google not censoring stuff.
I will also argue that freedom is not what is valued in the united states. Freedom for the ruling class is valued, but it's not valued for native americans. It's not valued for Palestinians. It's not valued for people who smoke dope.
The United States is not a "free" country. Its prisons are defined by wealth. Its freedoms are defined by political clout. Its laws are set by the rich, broken by the rich, and enforced on the lower class.
Freedom of speech in this country is defined by what is acceptable to those in power. If the speech promotes what those in power want, it is distributed. The media controls speech in this country -- not the people. It doesn't really matter anyway. How many people speak out about the war? It still started because the liars were louder.
So does it matter?
- henrikschroder 17y agoIt's not our place to say how another country should be run by another people. There's a difference between dictating what others should do and leading by example. Google doesn't care what other search engines in China do, they're just saying that they do not wish to censor anything on their search engine. If this is unacceptable to the Chinese government, they should just kick Google out instead of whining about it. Of course multi-national companies are coloured by their original culture, this cannot be a surprise to anyone, yet that is exactly what the Chinese government is acting like.
- fnid2 17y agoChina is being really nice about it, IMO. If it was an ordinary citizen running a search engine, they'd be in jail -- or suicided.