China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave 533
suraj.sun writes with this snippet from an Associated Press report:
"China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or 'pay the consequences,' giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. 'If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences,' Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of China's annual legislature. ... 'Whether they leave or not is up to them,' Li said. 'But if they leave, China's Internet market is still going to develop.' ... Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people. 'If there is information that harms stability or the people, of course we will have to block it,' he said."
Re:Protecting rights (Score:5, Funny)
"We are at war with Google. We have always been at war with Google."
Like China? (Score:4, Funny)
Anytime some dumbass talks about censoring for your own good, like Australia or New Zealand, people should use this quote. Like China?
Al Gore to visit China and rescue Google (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Protecting rights (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Protecting rights (Score:3, Funny)
"We are at war with Google. We have always been at war with Google."
Double plus good comment.
Re:All of you are part of the problem (Score:4, Funny)
--Sent From My iPhone
Re:Al Gore to visit China and rescue Google (Score:3, Funny)
Hillary has asked Al to go to China to recover Google and the internet he created from the hands of the evil dictatorship of the Chinese people.
I thought they were sending him over to turn off the internet and put China in internet time out until they can play nice and stop hacking everyone.
Re:Game of Chicken (Score:5, Funny)
How are the Chinese government officials going to find the objectionable content if they can't Google it?
Re:All of you are part of the problem (Score:3, Funny)
What you did there, I see it.
John Madden mode:
As you can see, when localman57 said he responded via his iPhone, he was indicating sarcasm, because, as you may not know, the iPhone is made in China. It's a brilliant move by localman57, as you can sense he was being subtle...and then BOOM! right there, he brings the punchline. BOOM! ~sent from my iPhone. Right there. That's the line. Cause up until that point, you would just think he was agreeing with the anonymous coward. An anonymous coward is someone who doesn't want you to know who they are, and they have an issue when it comes to fight or flight. See, the human response to a stressful situation is based on the idea that you'll either run or stand your ground, which is why they call it fight or flight. Brilliant satire by localman57 right there.
Re:Yeah but China could be rickrolled (Score:2, Funny)
Now that's just mean. I mean, "Rick Rohring" an entire country like that is just...WRONG.
Chinese regulators can't let go of the past... (Score:5, Funny)
All this stems from an incident several years back in which Li Yizhong was sent a link in a message online. When he clicked on it, and stared for a moment into the gaping void of a man's disproportionately stretched anus, he was forever changed... Determined to fight a never-ending battle against harmful information so that he would never again face that horror.
Re:Protecting rights (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Game of Chicken (Score:0, Funny)
So? If your host offers you human flesh to eat (or whatever you regard as immoral) then leaving is a good response, along with expressing your horror at what's going on. The fact that they have different standards to you doesn't relieve you of the obligation to live up to your own standards yourself. (If you don't regard participation as repugnant / offensive / wrong then that's another matter but in that case hiding behind your host's choices would be unnecessary and frankly pathetic).
That's why I quit going to church. They kept offering me Jesus' flesh to eat, and so I left, along with expressing my horror at what's going on. I had no idea Christians are cannibals!