Google joins Microsoft, Yahoo and others in agreeing to omit web content the Chinese government finds objectionable.
[…] I imagine Google is going to get enormous flack for this—but not from me.
The reality is that the U.S. also imposes restrictions on Google and other public information systems in a number of ways. One that comes to mind is bomb-making instructions. Sen. Feinstein amendment to a 1997 Defense appropriations bill made it a crime to distribute bomb-making instructions in the U.S. or incur a fine of $250,000.00 and a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Google joins Microsoft, Yahoo and others in agreeing to omit web content the Chinese government finds objectionable.
[…] I imagine Google is going to get enormous flack for this—but not from me.
The reality is that the U.S. also imposes restrictions on Google and other public information systems in a number of ways. One that comes to mind is bomb-making instructions. Sen. Feinstein amendment to a 1997 Defense appropriations bill made it a crime to distribute bomb-making instructions in the U.S. or incur a fine of $250,000.00 and a prison sentence of up to 20 years.