Google & China

Well, I just got motivated to get really political. Not in the red and blue sense (shortly my friends), but in the need to loudly speak out in what is going on with the Chinese government.

First, read the official Google's Blog statement about current events: New Approach to China

Next, listen to me. :)

I commend Google on their approach and position to this situation. The Chinese government is traveling down a path that is not sustainable in so many different ways. From the environment, over population, food shortages, to this obviously obscene act to control the minds of their citizens. It is one thing when the control is occurring in China, and another when they try to bring that controlling hand - through deceptive means outside of their own borders. Well I guess America does it militarily. protecting energy rights; China thorough the internet, controlling speech and the minds of 1.3 billion people. My largest problem is that it is not a hackers, or group of hackers, or some small anarchist movement; but it is the Chinese government hacking into some of the largest American companies in hope to secure intellectual property. Their mission is one of economic war, because the only way the ruling party will stay in power is if the continue a 9% growth rate per year. Having to fight opposing views. Otherwise, with no increased opportunity, China's citizens will begin to speak of democratic views. Demanding rights. Demanding more freedom. Demanding... voice.

I believe every person on this planet has an inherent right of speech, no matter where they are born. The right to breath, the right to eat, the right to drink and the right to speak.