Comments on: Tech firms skip D.C.-China shindig

Politicians wanted to talk about human rights and China this Wednesday. But tech companies are staying away.

[xmit30]

freedom/censorship needs to be a law

It is unfortunate that freedom and sensorship of freedom now has
to be a law that compels US companies to abide by basic American
principles when they do business. What does it mean to be an
American doing business in the world? Our soldiers and our media
personal are dying every day trying to bring freedom to people
while US companies only care about profits. A line has to be drawn
in the sand. Either you care about freedom at any cost or you need
to understand what it means to not have it by a law that can send
you to jail for denying freedom to others through censorship.

[TogetherinParis]

Laugh at the Chinese communists

American companies will optimize around the Chinese foot-
shooting contest. Our government is chock full of
entrepreneurs, yet it stumbles every other step as every
American businessman knows. So! Let the Chinese government
be stupid, let them waste their time and resources hunting down
their own innocent people for non-crimes, and let them lag
behind as copycats. They will just never understand that
prosperous stability comes from adjusting to change, not
repressing it. The sad fact is that red China is happy to keep the
five Chinese Bill Gates-types that their huge population would
naturally produce all squatting in rice paddies for the rest of
their lives.

[Earl Benser]

Typical boondoggle....

All the squirmy little politicians looking to get their name in the
news defending Rights, or Freedom, or whatever else they can
come up with. And they will pontificate from the podium for
three times longer than the time it takes to answer any set of
questions they might ask. And then they will all go home
saying....

"See what a good boy am I..."

And as usual, nothing will happen and it will all be forgotten in a
couple of weeks.

[samgmcf]

samgmcf

This issue is too important to be dismissed as mere politician posturing. American companies are doing China's censoring for China. That is outrageous, and they should be stopped from doing so. Period. Whether anything changes or not is up to us. Pressure your congressman to outlaw the censorship that Google and others are engaging in. Write a letter to your regional newspaper. Just don't get cynical about it.

[oohkumar]

Pigs playing cards with the farmer

You should read the last chapter of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Sums up the situation in China beautifully.

American companies cow-towing to the unelected
Chinese government makes a mockery of our claims of being a freedom loving nation.

[stmon99]

More political posturing from a useless congress

They don't want U.S. Companies to do business with these countries, but our government gets into bed with anyone whenever it's convenient. How ridiculous is that?

[Robert Wiseman]

It is sad ....

These are truly dark days of our history to see our young ones are sacrifying their lives in the name of democracy and human rights --- while the US Government and Companies for the sakes of a few dollars are collaborating with the most dictarship / police state in China. Shame, shame, shame......