Government's mandatory filter.
The plot thickens... Sure their articles racist and are basically designed
offend everyone, however I personally don't feel conformable with the
government being able to block a site like ED.
-- Chris
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
> If censoring some things (like "the most offensive sorts of racial
> vilification you could possibly find"), and refusing to censor other
things
> (like an historical account of a
pro-democracy demonstration), is
hypocrisy,
> then let me be the first to say that I'm
in favor of hypocrisy.
Silly Anthony. Don't you know that China was simply asking Google to
comply with local laws against morals-destroying smut, the propaganda
of life-destroying evil cults, and the subversion of mass-murdering
terrorists?
What's some peculiar racist humor compared with *that*? Strange moral
standards you have there.
But then, treating one country differently from
another country is not
hypocrisy. Treating one situation differently from another situation is
not
hypocrisy. Looking at the relevant part of the
Google statement, it was
this: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our
results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be
discussing
with the Chinese government the basis on which we
could operate an
unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
It was a statement specifically about the Chinese government, and about
results on google.cn. Google did not claim or even imply that it was
stopping all censorship altogether. So I don't see the hypocrisy.
It is, at the very least, inconsistent. One set of rules for the
Chinese (and the world), and another set for the Australians. What
difference is there between the 2 situations that justifies this? If
there is no difference, then it's a plain contradiction. (Oh, you
happen to agree with one and not the other? I see...)
--
gwern
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