__/ [Andrew Heenan] on Monday 20 February 2006 11:39 \__
> "Roy Schestowitz" wrote ...
>> Senior Google executives are being deluged with complaints in an email
>> campaign organised by opponents of the internet company's relationship
>> with
>> the Chinese government.
>
> That just shows there's a lot of stupid people about.
>
> Stupid enough to do nothing when Governments play games with China and make
> weak laws - and then take it out on companies who work within those laws.
>
> The whole thing makes me think of King Cnut, sitting on the beach with a
> hankie on his head, trying to stop the waves.
>
> And how sad for a once-great UK newspaper to pick up the story when
> everyone else has moved on ...
The Department of Justice is still humming about it. They are not too keen on
the idea of Cisco, Yahoo, MSN and Google collaborating with foreign
governments whose policies are adverse to democracy.
http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/archive/candorville-20060210.html
Roy
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