Suck on this, Ayn Rand.

[ernunnos]

Yet another reason I don't follow objectivists in idolizing businessmen. SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Chinese bloggers, even on foreign-sponsored sites, had better choose their words carefully -- the censors are watching.
Users of the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft Corp.'s new China-based Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words

Comments

[geah]

Right. If every company refuses to go into China, nothing changes...actually, it probably gets worse.

Just like Levi's and rock 'n' roll helped bring down the Berlin Wall, so will Long live d3mocr4cy, let fr33d0m r1ng.

[ernunnos]

Helping repressive regimes build the machinery of oppression in no way advances freedom. Blue jeans and music aren't even remotely part of the machinery of oppression. Nice try though.

[geah]

The Internet and IMing are not the tools of oppression. They're the tools of freedom.

I'd rather see the access there with China's crude, and easily bypassed, attempts at censorship, than no accesss at all.

[phanatic]

The Internet and IMing are not the tools of oppression.

The mass censoring of blogs and the Great Firewall are most definitely amongst the tools of oppresion, and are equally certainly not the tools of freedom.

[rdg]

China needs all the connectivity it can get. Even if firewalled, some google is better than no google.

[venaja]

Finally. 4 |_|53F|_|1 |_|53 F0|2 l337.