Hear No Evil, Post No Evil

In the last week there has been a surge in reports of the Chinese government attempts to censor what the people of China can read on the internet. Most of this news coverage is thanks to Matt Drudge, who understandably fears any censorship of the internet in China could be a model for censorship in the US.

However, while I think that the internet will never be censored in the US, I am disturbed by the fact that American companies are helping the PRC with restricting internet sites that mainland Chinese can surf.

I can say that I have not yet been blocked from China’s leading search engine Baidu.com, that’s right Google is not the leading engine in at least one country. I cannot however say the same thing for Yahoo China, which does not allow access to this page.

Now for all those that say that the economic prosperity will lead to increased freedom, as you can see apparently this freedom does not apply to the internet. All that the economic prosperity, which is fueled at the expense of the US, brings is revenue for China to continue its military buildup.

TRex of Politcs-Religion-Crypto is beginning to gather information about products made in the US. This is a great idea, because until we the people show the government that we are willing to stand up to China, the government never will. I encourage you to go to his site and help him out, so that we can have an option that will not assist a despotic regime in suppressing its’ people.