links for 2006-02-02

• Search Engine Diplomacy - How tech companies should do business in China. By Adam L. Penenberg
  "Pretty much every tech company is complicit in helping the Chinese government repress its citizenry. ..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech surveillance google microsoft yahoo cisco juniper oracle)
• Google, Yahoo, Microsoft urge U.S. to get involved in China censorship fight | News.blog | CNET News.com
  "Google, Yahoo and Microsoft--criticized for acquiescing to Chinese censorship rules--say the U.S. government should be doing more to get China to loosen up."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google yahoo microsoft)
• Internet titans slammed over China
  "Congressional human rights advocates Wednesday hammered four Internet giants -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems -- for helping Chinese authorities censor Web information and crack down on cyber-dissidents and warned that bipartisan legislation
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google yahoo microsoft cisco)
• Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk
  "U.S. firms are putting profits before principles by helping China censor the Internet, lawmakers said on Wednesday at the start of a congressional debate that could lead to rules on American technology companies operating in repressive states."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech cisco google microsoft yahoo)
• Official Google Blog: Human Rights Caucus briefing
  Submission of Andrew McLaughlin, Google Inc. February 1, 2006: "...we have urged the United States government to treat censorship as a barrier to trade..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google search internet trade)
• A simple analysis of the Google.cn event - Chiu Yung :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国数字时代
  "If Google really did anything wrong here, we can only conclude: China not only changed certain lifestyles of westerners by providing inexpensive goods, but also used its enormous market to change westerner's moral standards."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech trust search google msn blogs)
• Dave’s Wordpress Blog » It’s just business
  "We always say we’re exporting our way of life to the Chinese, but to me that seems as naive as the expected peace dividend people were talking about at the end of the Cold War."
  (tags: google china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech internet democracy ideas)

Comments

[Grant]

We can't always expect the rest of the world to feel the same as we do about things like democracy and free speech. China will only have these things when the people themselves demand it -- not when it is legislated by foreign governments.

[Terry Mitchell]

Great job on the blog. I remember you from your days with CNN.