[ILUG] Mother of God!

[Colm Buckley]

On 14 Feb 2006, at 19:02, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> All Google has to lose is money. That's worth less than liberty, in  
> my book.

Okay, let's generate a hypothetical scenario:

	* Google and Yahoo! take a principled stand and refuse to provide  
censored search in China
	* Microsoft has no principles and censors away
	* Eventually, gov.cn twigs that people are using Google to get  
around the GFW
	* gov.cn blocks Google and Yahoo!
	* Populace.cn now dependent on Microsoft for search

Who, exactly, wins under this scenario?  Apart from MS shareholders?

	Colm

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