Comments on: Google’s China Wall http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7744 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:33:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7744/comment-page-1#comment-32718 Reader's Write Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:39:58 +0000 #comment-32718 By the time you think they deserve it, it's too late. All companies policies and business practices should be regularly examined in order to keep them aware that we are watching them. If you leave companies alone until you find out they've been bad, they only have to ensure that you never find out they've been bad. I do think that the way certain countries are trying to apply their laws to the net is going to cause problems. For example Oz law has decided that if someone in Oz gets defamed by some website overseas, then those responsible can be dealt with by Oz law, in Oz. It literally won't matter where the website or content comes from or operates if that country has an extradition treaty with Oz and an Oz citizen complains, they're in trouble. Which means that now all websites operating in countries that have extradition treaties with Oz should now be careful that anything on their site doesn't violate any aspect of Oz law. Kinda silly huh? How could you make a website that simultaneously abides by every legal system in the world? You couldn't. Until everyone decides exactly which jurisdiction applies when someone in one country sees something that violates their country's laws, but not the laws of the country the site operates out of, things will likely get very interesting soon. I can't really see all the worlds govts cooperating on this one, as i'm sure they'd all see it as "giving up" some of their sovereignty to other countries. By the time you think they deserve it, it’s too late. All companies policies and business practices should be regularly examined in order to keep them aware that we are watching them. If you leave companies alone until you find out they’ve been bad, they only have to ensure that you never find out they’ve been bad.

I do think that the way certain countries are trying to apply their laws to the net is going to cause problems. For example Oz law has decided that if someone in Oz gets defamed by some website overseas, then those responsible can be dealt with by Oz law, in Oz. It literally won’t matter where the website or content comes from or operates if that country has an extradition treaty with Oz and an Oz citizen complains, they’re in trouble.

Which means that now all websites operating in countries that have extradition treaties with Oz should now be careful that anything on their site doesn’t violate any aspect of Oz law. Kinda silly huh? How could you make a website that simultaneously abides by every legal system in the world? You couldn’t.

Until everyone decides exactly which jurisdiction applies when someone in one country sees something that violates their country’s laws, but not the laws of the country the site operates out of, things will likely get very interesting soon. I can’t really see all the worlds govts cooperating on this one, as i’m sure they’d all see it as “giving up” some of their sovereignty to other countries.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7744/comment-page-1#comment-32698 Reader's Write Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:22:36 +0000 #comment-32698 Google can only do more good in China by actually agreeing to their internet laws!!! Its either that or be blocked in China... ... at least this way there is still a chance stuff can get threw! Google is not doing anything bad! comon please stop looking for badness in google, GOOGLE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING! sheesh people... just because they are getting to be a big company doesn't mean they are evil... IF they start ripping people off and forming monopolies... THEN you can consider them bad... but leave them alone until they deserve it! Google can only do more good in China by actually agreeing to their internet laws!!!

Its either that or be blocked in China… … at least this way there is still a chance stuff can get threw!

Google is not doing anything bad! comon please stop looking for badness in google, GOOGLE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING!

sheesh people… just because they are getting to be a big company doesn’t mean they are evil… IF they start ripping people off and forming monopolies… THEN you can consider them bad… but leave them alone until they deserve it!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7744/comment-page-1#comment-32668 Reader's Write Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:42:57 +0000 #comment-32668 I'm all for opposing censorship, but it is unfortunate that Google needs to do this. From their perspective, if they don't go into the Chinese market, someone else will and they can't risk losing all that additional revenue that can be made in that market. I’m all for opposing censorship, but it is unfortunate that Google needs to do this. From their perspective, if they don’t go into the Chinese market, someone else will and they can’t risk losing all that additional revenue that can be made in that market.

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