Mark Rasch, 2006-03-13
A government's position on censorship used to protect its citizenry is dictated by who they are. The well-popularized censorship of Internet content in China by Google and other big players, and criticism of this by the U.S. government, is really just the tip of the iceburg.
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Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-13
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Re: Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-13
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-14
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
First of all, let me correct you- it is Congressman Chris Smith that has introduced the Internet freedom legislation, not Chris Cox as you repeatedly stated. Secondly, I am what you might call a flaming liberal, and I am also opposed to US government attempts to get Internet companies to hand over i...
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Re: Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-14
Matthew Murphy
Matthew Murphy
You say that there's no moral equivalency between American and Chinese censorship, I disagree.
The goal of both is to endorse some kind of moral agenda that is arbitrary and over-reaching. In the U.S.' case, the agenda is that of the Bush administration, while in the Chinese case, the agenda is ...
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The goal of both is to endorse some kind of moral agenda that is arbitrary and over-reaching. In the U.S.' case, the agenda is that of the Bush administration, while in the Chinese case, the agenda is ...
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Re: Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-15
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
The objection then is to the law that makes it illegal in China to support the "seditious" idea that humans have rights, not to the idea that China can regulate the Internet to enforce its laws. Repression is the problem, not censorship.
Dont know WHERE I got Chris Cox from.. it IS Chris Smith...
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Dont know WHERE I got Chris Cox from.. it IS Chris Smith...
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Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-23
Anonymous
Anonymous
There are no differences between censorships ? they always protect the one who creates it ? government itself. Governments that can freely monitor its citizen ? will monitor its citizen (for the sake of current national interests). In this case Internet is just another tool ? in China or in USA. ...
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Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-29
Chris Cawley
Chris Cawley
If you had to send the ex-father-in-law $200 USD
to replace the money that he spent on the "magic" beans, then you may have a different take on their situation.
The Chinese had good reasons to outlaw multilevel marketing, etc.
The botton line? 50 years of communism did not resolve 5,000 years of...
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to replace the money that he spent on the "magic" beans, then you may have a different take on their situation.
The Chinese had good reasons to outlaw multilevel marketing, etc.
The botton line? 50 years of communism did not resolve 5,000 years of...
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Take for instance DMCA/COPA. These are examples of ill-conceived censorship that severely harms individuals' rights without anywhere near a substantive gain in the objective they're trying to achieve (copyright protection, prote...
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