The tyrannical regime governing Communist China engages in slave labor, forced abortion, torture of political dissidents, persecution of religious groups, and many other unjust and brutal abuses of human rights. And helping them hide these barbaric practices from their own citizens has been the giant information company Google who has willingly accepted the tyrant's censorship in their search engine.For instance, when someone within China uses Google to search "Laogai" or "Tiananmen Square” or "torture," they get selections much different than what an American or Japanese internet searcher would find using the same words. For the Communists in China require by law that Google rig their search engine to filter out anything that might put the government in a negative light. Worse yet, the government then knows who is attempting to search out these topics.
And Google has gone along with this horrendous censorship.
But Google recently announced that they are considering getting out of China because of the discovery that Chinese dissidents were having their e-mails hacked by the government. Another reason, perhaps the bigger one, is the negative publicity Google has received for being so compliant with a government that tortures and kills people.
But, for whatever reasons, the decent thing for Google to do is get out. Now.
Kathryn Jean Lopez has an excellent column here at NRO about this matter, a column which also explores the role Republican Congressman and human rights champion Chris Smith has played in exposing China's outrageous actions, effectively protesting the "sickening collaboration" China has enjoyed from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco, and leading the charge for the Global Online Freedom Act.
It's important reading and a great motivation for you to write your Congressmen and Senators in behalf of passing ASAP the Global Online Freedom Act.
