“The wars of the future may be fought on the internet” – 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’s showdown with the Chinese government.
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.
China will never threaten America’s dominance unless and until its people enjoy the same freedoms of speech and enterprise that Americans do.
Meanwhile, back at the Neanderthal Ranch…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.
…because after all Chavez is an expert on falsities.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933
Really? China having freedom of speech and freedom of enterprise will THREATEN the United States?
I think we can survive the Chinese getting those freedoms, and the sooner the better, along with anywhere else in the world that doesn’t have them yet. We can compete with that, any day, and should.
Dog the line is “China will and can never threaten America’s dominance unless and until its people enjoy the same freedoms of speech and enterprise that Americans do.” I think the “will and” at the beginning is an error on Mitch’s part which confuses you. He is stating the opposite of your opinion. That UNTIL China has the essential freedoms that we take for granted they will not be able to threaten America’s dominance in the world.
Never seen Mitch propose less freedom for others… your take seems ill considered.
duly noted…I edited it for clarity
Johnny, the wars of the future will be fought in space. Or at least on the tops of very tall mountains.
(krod, that is a joke, not Liberal Fascism)
Ha ha ha ha ha…
Wars have always been fought in space… sometimes that space has been as confined as a small fox hole. 😉