Google V. China: Should the internet be policed?

I don't believe in censorship. But I don't believe in internet companies/advertisers knowing everything about me, either. http://www.theresident.net - Get a new view on the news at http://www.rt.com

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News & Politics

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• google
• china
• censorship
• tiananmen square
• rt
• the resident

[Czzzaar]

It respects people from looking at it? That sentence makes no sense.

What needs to be respected is the individuals right to see and do whatever they want as long as they are not physically or economically harming another. That is called FREEDOM.

You either believe in liberty or you don't, there is no in-between.

[scorpionkings]

Censorship shouldn't exist

[VideoMenu]

If this is the level of critical thinking the youngest adult generation has to offer, no WONDER the EU is rapidly morphing into radical states with Sharia law in place.

Yes, that's right! England, Sweden & I think Netherlands all have Sharia protection in place right now. Rapidly in EU, wife beatings, honor killings, halal, female circumcision, etc are PROTECTED.

"Like, OMG, if their culture is, like, Communism?--we have to, like, respect that!" :41

You people FRIGHTEN me.

[VideoMenu]

Every RT show (two I've seen now) seems to be hosted by dingalings.

1st, your title promised China as the topic It quickly changed to "Like, OMG! My info is, like, on Facebook 'n stuff!"

2nd, did that limp noodle at :41 actually make apologies for communism? I'm socially liberal & THAT frightens me.

3rd, your video comment makes no logical sense. "Like, I don't believe in censorship? But then I don't, like, believe in them knowing everything."

WHAT?! Censorship & privacy are not the same! cont.

[clairishe]

You should have posed the question for this debate differently. How could anyone ever be in favor of censorship? Its the responsibility of individuals to protect themselves from information not other entities. You should have asked, "Should Google try to defeat China's efforts at censorship or should it respect China's cultural values" or something along those lines.

[bramcorleone]

I think the internet is the closest thing to freedom and freedom of speech. Just look at all the racism and cursing in comments on youtube alone.. No conventional medium would showcase such comments (you'll probably get a lot of beeps). Off course comments can be (falsely/correctly) marked as spam

[paydog23]

Not at all! Internet censorship is evil!

[MrXxxilikepiexxx]

China's communist DICKtators oppress the Chinese people too much. When I was in China last summer I asked our guide about the Tiannamen Square Incident and he replied "Oh I know Tiannamen Square, good place, nothing bad ever happen." Later I asked him about WWII and the nukes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He said it is common knowledge that the Japanese had already surrendered to China, then America nuked them.

[Rocketeer1001]

@magikmaker "but I've never been anywhere [United States] where there's so much censorship in music, television and speech."

Funny because RT can be watched in the United States. On the contrary, it's funny how China forces Google to censor anything related to 1989 Tiannamen Square incident and how Russia kills investigative journalists.

[natalie5102325]

If the internet is policed,

where the hell else will we have freedom?

It's already censored in some ways.