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To: TobagoJack who wrote (71950)	1/13/2010 2:27:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	10 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 74559

Cool. The free world of 5 billion people versus China's bosses. This should be fun. My bet is that the so-called New Sovereign is going to find the Second Coming is a bit too big to handle. Especially since the billion in China are not exactly on the side of the bosses any more than the proletariat of the USSR was on the side of Brezhnev. <If Google follows through on its threat, "Baidu would emerge as the dominant player with even more bargaining power with its customers," Li told investors in a note Wednesday, but added that even if Google stays in China, advertisers may still have concerns about spending on the site. Still, the analyst argues a pullout is the most likely scenario. According to Li's checks, Google's site in China has already lifted censoring filters for some keywords, which could quickly put it at odds with the Chinese government.> Who thinks Chinese will do better or worse by being held hostage to Baidu? Who thinks Chinese will be able to compete with freedom when locked up as serfs behind the Great Wall of China? Which is not to say the so-called free world is as free as it's cracked up to be. I suspect in day to day life it's more free in China where people choose to wear crash helmets or not, choose to smoke, or not, choose to work or not, choose to do do lots of things themselves or not. Provided of course that they kneel before the totalitarians when expected to do so. "Don't be evil" is not a slogan which sits comfortably beside supporting people who shoot fleeing freedom-seekers in the back. Mqurice

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