China regularly blocks access to websites deemed sensitive and a number of US companies, including Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Yahoo!, have been hauled before the US Congress in recent years and accused of complicity in building what has been called the "Great Firewall of China".
Those U.S. companies want to profit from the creation of an electronic police state in China rather than the freedom for the Chinese people.
Every one of these companies is run by the most feral Leftist ideologues, leading thousands of terminally smug and hip employees, all driving Priuses and saving the whales and supporting carbon taxes and dressed in expensive trashed black clothes when they go clubbing.
Silicon Valley - the most vile of the most vile of the most vile.
Something Bammy would love to do with FOX.
Weak. Make China conform to us or no products from U.S. As much as they have us by the short hairs in terms of our debt, they 100% need us technology wise. Call their bluff.
The chip is coming. The chip is coming. Companies will not stand on principle for the most part. They want to make money and they will bow down to any government to do it.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday said it had asked Apple about the reported blocking of Dalai Lama iPhone applications. "In the spirit of transparency, the company should release a complete list of the censored applications -- if indeed censorship is going on -- and the criteria used to make the selections," RSF said in a statement. "If Apple has agreed to remove products from the App Store under pressure from the authorities, the American company would join the club of those complicit in censorship of information in China," the France-based group said.
Well... there are many products that are not allowed to be sold in the US because of various reasons - materials they are made of, or because they are used for illegal purposes. Some because they don’t meet certain “standards” set by our government (think some of the new Diesel engines).
So those companies don’t sell that particular item here, though they may sell other products.
I don’t condone China’s practice of squashing free expression. But gee... There are other popular US-made or designed products being sold in China. I guess we should rant and complain about all of those too? After all - doing business in China is an endorsement of their government, right?