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To Blog or not to blog.
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I have been traveling blog here and there including Google in 2001 UDN stationing my blog and visiting CT blog from time to time.

Here I noticed that the following blogger has attracted my attention
從CNN主管到部落客--R.M. an American lady. I noticed that she has tried to promote her blogger from the point of view of An American toward Chinese situation and FLG's suffering of persecution in China. I am a believer of total fairness and would not promote something if I don't have enough evidence to support my belief. In another words, I would take both pro and con before I witness the truth myself.

I happened to drop in her blogger one day and found in her blog there are lot of advertising in her blogger and nothing wrong with that. But when I found that she advocates the mission of promoting the course of FLG and joint the wagon of renouncing the Chinese's persecution of FLG. I doubt if she has 1st hand information about FLG case. I don't think it proper to promote something you do not actually witness the persecution and just based on information nothing but hear-says.

I sent one of my bloggers article and comments about Mr. Smith's hearing about Microsoft Google Yahoo and Cisco case and demand American to clean up their backyard. I guess because of fearing the possibilities offending the advertisers feeling she pulled off the plug and removed my comments. That made me unhappy and I considered her one of the ugly American who is afraid of the truth.

I don't know how she left CNN, which remains a puzzle. I believe anyone who creates a blogger must have a decent purpose, at least from view-point of being a human. Criticize a country like China anything far away from the facts is subject to scrutiny. Of course I respect her right of speech and we have to live in a real society, which is ruled by the rules of law. The same is true that I have been living in America and I have to observe the law. That is purpose of writing this "To blog or not to blog".

Note the lastest news from China.

attached 6/7/06 news copy:

Google創辦人承認:為了中國市場 Google犧牲原則

記者管淑平/編譯 2006-06-07 13:59

Google公司為了配合中國政府的言論審查而過濾網路搜尋內容,在龐大網友批評聲浪下,Google共同創辦人布林(Sergey Brin)6日承認,為了配合中國的審查要求,Google妥協了該公司的基本原則。


 

Google的兩名創辦人布林和佩吉6日華府召開的媒體日記者會上,承認Google為了中國市場妥協自己的原則。布林說,Google是在被中國政府封殺後,才同意接受審查要求,Google的對手也接受了同樣的要求,但是卻沒受到國際批判,布林形容這些要求是「一套我們之前不會接受的規則。」

布林說,「我們覺得,或許我們可以在原則上做出妥協,但是卻能提供中國人更多訊息,一個更有效益的服務,這或許會有所不同。」

在中國政府嚴格打擊網路異議言論下,Google在中國地區推出的中國版Google會刪除北京政府視為敏感的字眼,如台獨,六四和天安門事件,以及西藏獨立等。此外,Google在美國也面臨司法部要求交出網友搜尋活動資料,引發侵犯隱私權的爭議。

布林說,在考慮改弦易轍之前,他們正在努力改善經過過濾的中國版Google搜尋服務,而且實際上,Google在中國的用戶幾乎都是用未經過濾的服務,他說,Google也可以採取不同的做法,然後說Google捍衛反對審查的原則,並因此不會在中國做生意,「這是另一條路,但是不是我們此刻選擇要走的路。但是我會看看人們對這種做法有什麼不同的結

AP
China: Internet Cos. Must Obey Its Laws
Thursday June 8, 11:14 am ET
Beijing Says Internet Companies in China Must Abide by Its Laws

BEIJING (AP) -- China welcomes foreign Internet companies working in China, but they must respect and abide by the country's laws, including those on expression, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

The comments by ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao followed remarks Tuesday by Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledging the Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands.

Liu said China took a positive attitude toward working with companies such as Google, but any cooperation must exist "within a framework of law," and that Beijing hoped firms would abide by China's regulations.

Google's Brin said the Internet company had agreed to the censorship demands only after Chinese authorities blocked its service in that country.

Google's China-approved Web service omits politically sensitive information that might be retrieved during Internet searches, such as details about the June 1989 suppression of political unrest in Tiananmen Square. Its agreement with China has provoked considerable criticism from human rights groups.

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