Don’t be evil

Dictatorships are using the filtering power of networks

Seems the world’s dictators have awakened to the possibilities… Net censorship spreading worldwide.  The disturbing angle is all the Western firms helping them do it, especially the one whose slogan is ‘Don’t be evil’. 

Google is a great company, with world-changing innovation, and I understand they want a chunk of a billion-soul market share.  But why don’t they (and Cisco, and ...) just tell the dictators to censor their own damn connections? 

It reminds me that information technology companies are not new to complicity with horrible regimes.

Posted by George on 05/04/06 at 12:41 PM
Politics •

  1. “Deja-vu all over again” - Yogi Berra

    Mopeds, Cable TV, now the Internet. Nothing is safe from the control freaks. It’s only a matter of time, but won’t someone please think of the children?

    Radio Free America anyone?

    Posted by breakerslion  on  05/04/06  at  07:52 PM

  2. The almighty dollar makes for some strange bedfellows….

    Posted by james old guy  on  05/05/06  at  07:29 AM

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