Hello
I have seen several requests for this discussion to go offlist or to
social. This message has been cross-posted to social@ so that any
further discussion may be followed up there.
For those of you have not read it before, I call it serendipity, but
this was part of my morning reading:
" +------------------------------------------------------------+
| Your email is about to be sent to several hundred thousand |
| people, who will have to spend at least 10 seconds reading |
| it before they can decide if it is interesting. At least |
| two man-weeks will be spent reading your email. Many of |
| the recipients will have to pay to download your email. |
| |
| Are you absolutely sure that your email is of sufficient |
| importance to bother all these people ? |
| |
| [YES] [REVISE] [CANCEL] |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
"
From:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers
Regards
Jacqueline
Randomthots wrote:
Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
You're right that being an accessory is usually considered less culpable
than actually committing a crime. However, that does not necessarily
mean that the accessory is innocent, either.
The problem I'm having with this discussion, aside from the fact that it
should be on Social, is that I'm still not clear on precisely what
Google's alleged crime is supposed to be.
If the "crime" is that oppressive governments use Google's search engine
capacity to discover information about dissidents and such, then the
dissidents should be more careful about what and where they post
information.
If the "crime" is filtering out information from the citizens in
compliance with local laws, then that's just a price of doing business.
What's the alternative? Not do business in China? What does that
accomplish other than further restricting their citizen's access to
information? Flout the law? I'm sure the Chinese authorities are
perfectly capable of seizing any in-country assets and blocking IP
addresses at border routers. Again, what does that accomplish?
The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.
Rod
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