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• Wot a lot of horsehockey by Big Business

  (Score:2) by Fang-Face (37) on Friday April 20, @04:03PM (#29624)
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  It didn't work at Nuremberg, why should it be valid in this case?

  What Yahoo!, Google, et al do in China is a matter of business, not human rights, no matter their protestations to the contrary.

  The reference to sirloin steaks was an allusion to a then oft-asked question of Robert Heinlein concerning the likelyhood of the SovUnion becoming less aggressive as they buy more consumer goods and their standard of livingrises. That question was the raison d'etre for almost the entirety of his speech; for the answer was a resounding, "No." It seems a reasonable surmise to me that the same could be said for the "ChiComms".

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  Save the easily offended: ban everything.

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