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Thank you -- with this comment I finally realized that I have no need to read HN.

• hugh3 16y ago
  How's that, exactly?
  • mediaman 16y ago
    Because comments are like chain links: the strength of the best is limited by the worst. (Facetious, obviously; while I disagree with your parent comment because Google has far too little influence in China to effect any change, a response declaring the whole of HN rotten is nothing more than a non sequitur; "Good riddance!" I say.)
    • hugh3 16y ago
      while I disagree with your parent comment because Google has far too little influence in China to effect any change Ah, now that's a good argument! That's the argument I'll probably make against myself when I'm less caught up in libertarian fervour. A sober cost-benefit analysis may reveal that google can't possibly do enough to hasten the downfall of the Chinese regime to make it worthwhile. Still, we have yet to consider the question of what they could actually do. Email every Chinese citizen? Fly the Goo-Jet over Chinese airspace dragging a banner? Radio transmissions across the border? Who knows? Can't do a cost-benefit analysis until you've thought through strategy. What is the best way to spend, say, a billion dollars in order to bring down a regime?
      • Ardit20 16y ago
        How on earth can you be libertarian and propose aggressive intervention in other people's affairs? A libertarian wants freedom to be his own adult, what you are proposing is saving the 'children' by bringing in some tough nanny.