01-25-2010, 04:21 PM
Diggles Wrote:Have you not been following the situation? Chinese government hacked Google to find names/info/proof of dissidents using Gmail, which will be imprisoned and/or killed. Google is going to be the first Western company to say 'fuck you' to all of China's censorship and government control rules. This is huge. This could the first step as part of a revolution.
If Google blew up tomorrow it wouldn't even effect the US let alone China. It barely has 20k employee's.
China could care less what the US thinks and we have 10,000 nukes. What makes you think they give a shit what a search engine company thinks?
China isn't a free country and isn't going to be one anytime soon. They aren't going to go the way the USSR did. They are economically viable and short of a very very bloody change China will remain as is.
Unless Google is going to spend there 1.4 billion on guns they can't do shit.
In the end I think Google will cave and end up being China's little bitch because that is where the money is. Corporations make bad revolutionaries because quite frankly there is no money in it unless you sell arms.
Vllad