China accuses Google of 'malicious' censorship The Chinese Communist Party's main newspaper is (apparently without a trace of irony) accusing Google of unfairly censoring its website for having reported on the search firm's book-scanning copyright dispute. People's Daily said its online book section was blocked from Google searches via a malware warning for three days …
Whether it is in China or in any other country that already has an extensive legal library to deal with publishing issues, I simply cannot understand why the fact that a publication is online makes so much difference that entirely new laws need to be written.
I can understand that some laws may need to be amended, and maybe some explanation added to some other laws, but entirely new laws ? That would be like making new rules for road security because of TipTronic gear-changing.
Any time I hear of a law being specifically written to control publication on the Internet, I hear of a law that is redundant, not thought through, unnecessarily restrictive, incompetently worded, much too focussed in its action and most probably misses some major point.
Laws like that get struck down as soon as reason once again prevails.
Another country that is criminalising activities legal in other countries. I hope we don't sign an American-style rapid extradition agreement with them...
This is what happens when a communications network spans multiple countries or, more importantly, cultures and religions. What is accepted practice in one is rude, immoral or illegal in another.
How about a UN bill of human rights as a starting point. Oh, hang on, that'll take years to agree and then half the nations won't sign. Hmm, think I'mm turning into a troll feeder.
"Google has maliciously blocked the channel in retaliation."
Hey Peoples Daily! Grow the fuck up and stop being so childish, clearly this is an automated system, it's there to stop malware, and it prolly found some on their site, they prolly wrote it ffs, it's not like China has never been linked with state sponsored spyware before is it!?!?
All I need to do is blatantly talk about the one-night stands, wife swapping and the sexual abuse that I regularly get up to in my love-dungeon.
Obviously a mention or two of extreme violence that shows a complete disregarded common decency and in-depth discussion of goatsex would also help.
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