Tag: "China"
Bye Bye Google Ads
Based on Google’s decision to help China repress the free expression of ideas to and from its people, I’ve decided to pull the Google AdSense advertisements from my blog. I realize this isn’t much of a drop in the bucket for Google and not a great sacrifice on my part. Heck, the ads haven’t made [...]
Google Panders in the Land of Pandas.
This front-page New York Times story provides an interesting contrast with the last story I mentioned. Google is moving into China, less its e-mail and blog services. It’s search engine will be designed to be heavily censored, in keeping with China’s policy of oppressing the living hell out of its citizens. This is a change [...]
Able Danger, China, and a Hearing?
Why was Able Danger shut down? Was it because it peeked in on Condoleeza Rice because of her connections to Stanford, or was it because the Chinese kept showing up? The story is just about too complicated for me to track easily. But the good news is that we might jus get that Congressional hearing, [...]
China! Reform those Things that We Can’t Call “Gulags”.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. For those of you who don’t remember, the Chinese government cracked down on anti-government protests using their military. In the two days, June 3-4, 1989, the Chinese military killed somewhere between 400-800 of its own citizens (though the protestors claimed as many as 7000 were killed). [...]
When in Beijing…
It’s a tough thing that people from outside our country don’t like us very much. It’s tougher when a high-ranking editor of the Washington Post doesn’t like us very much and decided to bash us to the state newspaper of China. Par for the course, I suppose. With citizens like that, who needs enemies? However, [...]
Chinese Fairness
I heard Lisa Ling on today’s Oprah Winfrey show (don’t ask why it was on. Really) where she said the most amazing thing: “Women really are treated very fairly in China”. Well, perhaps they are, assuming the authorities there allow then to live past infancy. China does, after all, have a rich tradition for killing [...]
Thoughts on Freedom
Jay Tea of Wizbang has an intriguing idea and I’ve decided to participate. He posted some “steam of consciousness” thinking into an entry and wants to see where we go with it. Catalyst: talk show host refers to Massachusetts as “the cradle of liberty.” First reactions: I’ve written a lot about Massachusetts — it’s not [...]
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