Carnal Reason

There has been a lot of criticism of Google’s decision to practice censorship on behalf of China. I think the Chinese have made a deal with the devil. Information is a very tricky genie, one very hard to keep in the bottle. Sure, Google and China can try to censor search results, but there will be information leakage. Lots of it. And it will slowly eat away at the monstrous lie which is communism.

Dean Esmay has a different take.

I have a simple question:

The apartheid government in South Africa, in 1986 (i.e. 20 years ago today) asks internet search engines operating in South Africa to block any sites regarding anyone named Mandela, the African National Congress, the notion of democracy, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or even the Declaration of Independence. Google rolls over like a cheap whore and says “Yes master! You’re in charge!” and then tells the rest of us “hey, we’re only complying with local laws and customs.”

Yes it is the same thing!

Here’s my reaction: Screw you Larry. Screw you Serge. Screw you Google. I am completely uninterested in doing business with you. You’re damned right I’m unreasonable: Guilty as charged!

Here’s what I say to my fellow internet users and my fellow bloggers: Use Scroogle. Use Gigablast. Have nothing to do with those cheap whores who work for The Google Entity. It may be a little inconvenient, but you won’t wake up in the morning feeling dirty.

Posted on January 30th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: politics