{"id":9252,"date":"2010-03-15T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:55:38","slug":"google-v-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9252","title":{"rendered":"Google: Liberator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5216\">The wars of the future may be fought on the internet<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Johnny Roosh<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703447104575118092158730502.html\">As a boy growing up in the Soviet Union<\/a>, Sergey Brin witnessed the consequences of censorship. Now the Google Inc. co-founder is drawing on that experience in shaping the company&#8217;s showdown with the Chinese government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The internet may be many things, for better or worse, but one would have to backtrack history to the invention of the printing press to find an innovation that has done more for the free flow of information, expression and commerce.<\/p>\n<p>China will never threaten America&#8217;s dominance unless and until its people enjoy the same freedoms of speech and enterprise that Americans do.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at the Neanderthal Ranch&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703780204575120710418662050.html?mod=WSJ_World_LEFTSecondNews\">Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet<\/a> on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;because after all Chavez is an expert on falsities.<span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>What progress we are making.\u00a0 In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.\u00a0 Now they are content with burning my books.<\/em> ~Sigmund Freud, 1933<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The wars of the future may be fought on the internet&#8221; &#8211; Johnny Roosh As a boy growing up in the Soviet Union, Sergey Brin witnessed the consequences of censorship. Now the Google Inc. co-founder is drawing on that experience in shaping the company&#8217;s showdown with the Chinese government. The internet may be many things, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9276,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}