U.S., China Trade Barbs After Google's Ultimatum

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"Never anything about the US hacking foreign governments or businesses. Grow up! This has and will go on forever!"
No we don't do that here. Sorry, I meant that'd be Classified.

TTT of NY 8:36PM January 25, 2010

no doubt that freedom is important for everybody, but is freedom meaning everyone can watch and download the pornography and even criminal info from internet freely？
what's more, it is none of US business to consider the internet freedom in China. Chinese are smart , they can solve their own problem.

christina 5:57AM January 25, 2010

What demonstrable harm has it done? And, how do you discern what is merely obscene from what is provocative without descending into subjectivity and censorship of convenience?

Bob of CA 7:07PM January 23, 2010

Hillary’s speech was about motherhood and apple pie. In the real world, the internet needs to be censored of pornography and other criminal activities. Can you imagine the US government permitting Al Qieda terrorists setting up a recruitment website in Washington DC? Many other nations in the world including US allies in the world especially Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kuwait censor their internet of content. And more internet attacks and viruses originate from Eastern Europe and Russia than China. Yet Hillary Clinton’s speech was politically targeted at only the Chinese probably because China refuses to impose UN sanctions on Iran. The economic sphere is in reality, more politicized in the United States today than in China.

DJC of CT 11:24AM January 23, 2010

Why my comment changed by other people twice in a minute?!

Tim 6:55AM January 23, 2010

What is wrong with you people?I just wrote a comment on this about the Google policy on China.Then just after a short time later I came here this time again only find nothing about my comment.What a hell! Who did it? I hate it so musch....ass!

Tim of UT 6:54AM January 23, 2010

As a Chinese netizen,I strongly support Google under the condition of no pornography,but other freedom for search.

Tim 6:46AM January 23, 2010

If you're willing and able to censor searches for pornography in China for any reason whatsoever, how about doing the same for your citizen brethren in the USA? Our kids don't really need it anymore than Chinese kids need it, you know.

Muser of NM 7:49PM January 22, 2010

Secretary Clinton’s remarks concerning the” information curtain” dividing the world, reminded me of the apartheid era where much greater injustice and unspeakable acts against humanity were challenged and ultimately overcome through the use of corporate codes of conduct. Given the success of codes of conduct in ending apartheid, we should look at applying the same principles to, at the very least, minimize the censorship of information in repressive countries such as China. This was the subject of an article on the International Business Law Advisor, How Lessons from the Apartheid Era Can Help Tear Down the Great Firewall of China http://bit.ly/6Zzhe7

Santiago Cueto of FL 4:35PM January 22, 2010