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Last month's clash between Google and China was definitely a 21st century tiff, as the Great Search Engine of America's Silicon Valley collided with China's Great Firewall, the still-communist software filter that surrounds the Middle Kingdom's digital terrain.
The Google versus China battle repeated elements of the classic struggle between an "open society" and a "closed society." Google accused the Chinese government of hacking the email accounts of human rights activists and told China that it was "no longer willing to continue censoring" Internet search results for terms like "Tiananmen Square." Yes, the Beijing government gets very touchy when its...
The Great Search Engine Collides With the Great Firewall
I wonder how the PC-police weren't up in arms that Hu was wearing a yellow hat (a cone shaped "coolie hat" to boot)and yellow coat, don't they know yellow is offensive to Asians???? (actually it was the color of the Emperor only members of the victim, too club claim it is).
To that point, MARTA, the Atlanta-area transit authority decided to rename their lines from directional names like Northeast Line to colors. One of the colors they picked was the Yellow Line. It ran NE and through places like Chamblee (aka Chambodia) and Doraville, which have a high...