Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Google is Right on China

Having lived in Asia ten years, I am much less enamored of anti-censorship than the American Congress or the European Press, which are roasting Google and inciting scorn around the Muslim World.

I am much more in favor of regulated expression. I have seen benefits of it in Asian societies, just as I have seen pitfalls of free expression in the West.

This article presents a reasonable view of China's struggles in its regulation of media. Thanks to the recommendation by my friend Randy.

"My view is considerably more sympathetic both to Google and to China and its leaders than is the Internet consensus."

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