, 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)
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Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-14
Anonymous (2 replies)
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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 one of subservience to the state. They're not that distant, as authoritarian as our President is becoming...
But regardless, the United States has no right to condemn China for using censorship to suit its leaders' moral agenda when the United States government does the same EXACT thing. Just because Americans view the Chinese censorship as more morally egregious doesn't make ours right.
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