Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco make me ill.

[Skidmore]

Lantos did a good job grilling those stuffed corporate shirts. I wish he'd plow into some of the other people that appear before the committees to testify about the war and other issues with as much passion.

Those people in front of that committe hearing about the adverse effects of their policies on the people in China and other nations who have oppressive human rights policies was chilling. Ethical codes are just intellectual exercises for corporations. Something done to comply with standards.

[Maraya1969]

1. I thought that China kept pulling GOOGLE down and the only way

they will stay up is with the blocks that the country wants. Maybe I don't know everything going on but I figured if they keep it up the Chinese people can probably find out whatever they want to anyway. My stepson never had a problem with the blocks and locks and parental controls that his father and I set up.

[cornermouse]

2. When we originally started trading with China, we were told

repeatedly that doing business with China would force them to open up and become a democracy because they couldn't maintain their repressive government while doing business with us. Had our corporations tried to maintain democratic principles, they might have been right.

Unfortunately our corporations found that there are very real benefits in doing business with a nation who has their population under an iron fist. Massive profits from incredibly low employee wages, no employee benefits, no environmental laws or penalties, and so far, no nationalization. In short, our corporations have decided that they prefer China's communist repression to our democracy and as a result we are no longer doing business with China to democratize them. No, that's been quietly dropped from the "reasons for doing business with" list and our corporations are now eager to dump any and all democratic principles in order to do business with China.

:rant: