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When Do Liberals Agree To Censorship?

When it’s good business and there’s money to be made.

AP reports: “Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market.”

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China’s Web suffix “.cn,” on Wednesday. A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine has previously been available through the company’s dot-com address in the United States. By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make its search engine more widely available and easier to use in the world’s most populous country.”

Michelle Malkin quips: “What will Google’s search engine logo look like tomorrow? Here’s my suggestion:”

Looks good to us. But what will Al Gore say?

UPDATE: (1/26)
Atlas Shrugs calls for divesting of Google stock.
That makes two conservatives. Any liberals?

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19 Responses to “When Do Liberals Agree To Censorship?”

Matthew Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
When did Silicon Valley execs start voting Democratic? I think you must be really stretching to find some new way to say “I hate liberals” today…
MacStansbury Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
When did Silicon Valley execs start voting Democratic? Uh, when did the Well get started?

It’s no secret the cultural and political bias of Silicon Valley, and it’s always been that way, and probably won’t ever change.
Below The Beltway Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Google Gives In To Big Brother

First it was Microsoft, then Yahoo and other Internet portals were quick to follow. Today, Google became the latest Internet content provider to give in to the demands of China’s Communist dictators.
Matthew Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Well, I used to live there and the execs/founders were always pretty much staunch Republican supporters. It even shows in their donations to the RNC and the bills they supported. I don’t know which SV you’re talking about. Maybe some super secret version in Hollywood.
Iowa Voice Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 5:55 am
Google Question

Anyone else find it more than odd that Google will bend over backwards to help out a communist government stifle free speech, yet not cooperate in a little experiment here in the United States?

I do.

Others commenting:

Michelle Malkin
Six24 Blog
Matthew Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Why did Google acceed to China’s demands? Because it wants more money. Why didn’t they do so here? Because they’re afraid of losing money. Simple enough for you?
Fried Wire Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 9:47 am
I suppose when Yahoo! (GOP supporter by percentage of political contributions) sold out that Chinese guy for disagreeing with the govt. resulting in a ten-year sentence, that was OK?

Conservatives??? No-one who brings in Malkin to back up their opinions can in any way be considered ‘conservative’. That would be like Howard Dean quoting Stalin. Get a grip, (not so) silent “majority”!
California Conservative Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Did Howard Dean quote Stalin? Wow. We knew his material was fringe, but c’mon… Dean really is a scream.

Oh, and Matt, I guess you aren’t talking about this founder of Yahoo!
Matthew Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Dear CC, did I say ALL of them? No. I would have thought you intelligent enough to realize I wasn’t making a blanket statement that ALL SV founders/execs donate money to the RNC. I expect you to use your brain when you read, just as you expect the rest of us to.
California Conservative Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 11:03 am
“Well, I used to live there and the execs/founders were always pretty much staunch Republican supporters.”

That’s what YOU wrote. And it coveys a “blanket statement.”

If you intended otherwise, you would have written “most” or “some” or “a few” of the execs/founders. But we’re not here to give you grammar lessons. Besides, it appears that you’ve got a good crip on creative writing.

Thanks for reading, and looking forward to your continued commentary.
California Conservative Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Oh, one more thing: it’s amusing how you and Deep Fried are missing the point.

This isn’t about Yahoo! It’s about censorship. One of the major liberal bogeymen.

Why aren’t the lefty activists leading a PR assualt against Google? Hit ‘em where it hurts: share price. Afterall, the founders are billionaires. *gasp* In liberal parlance, that means “capitalist pigs.” No better target. No better reason.

We support your efforts to stop censorship in China. Power to the people!
Matthew Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I would have thought “pretty much” would have fallen into the region of “most” or “many” but apparently not for some people…. :rollseyes:

I think it’s a fair question to ask why lefty activists aren’t doing anything, but this begs at least three questions:
1) How do you know ‘they’ aren’t? Since hurthing them through share price, as you argue, is a personal choice you’ll never know if lefties are making their power felt. You’re just presuming you know what lefties are thinking. A dangerous habit.

2) What are righty activists doing about it? To steal a play from your book: probably nothing. Better yet, what they’re doing is probably buying up all that stock that lefties are selling. It has to go somewhere right since the stock market is a zero sum game. I applaud you for bringing the issue up but it’s also been covered in newspapers, in other conservative blogs, and in other liberal blogs. Doesn’t seem to me that anyone is out there saying ‘Yay for censorship!’…..except maybe the Chinese government. I think your making assumptions that you can’t justify because you really dislike people who don’t have hard right views. I think that’s a flaw. I don’t necessarily agree with everything you have to say but I read nonetheless because sometimes I pick up things that I either didn’t know and these things can change my mind. If I refused to even consider other people’s views simply because of their supposed ‘lefty’ politics, well, then that makes my intellectual world a lot smaller. Not all of them are the demons that you think as not all conservatives are the demons certain lefties would have you beliefe.

3) What is the administration doing about it? Oh, nothing…but I think it’s telling that there’s not much of a squak about it coming from DC. But then, it’s DC. If there’s money/power in it, they’ll keep their mouths shut.
Matthew Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
On that note, pardon the typos and grammatical flubs. ;-)
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