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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 05:42 AM
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Freedom ain't nothin' but a subjective term to Microsoft and Google
Edited on Wed Feb-15-06 06:23 AM by cornermouse
Take China for instance...

Banning and shutting down websites, contacting and giving information about identities of people to the Chinese government even when no real crime is involved.

Its just business, nothing personal.

Pretty much the same thing with the pump prices that continue to spiral upwards ever more rapidly and, what was it, $7,000,000,000 the oil companies will be getting from the U.S. government this year in addition to what they've been charging for what was it, royalties?

Just business as usual, nothing personal.

A White House and Congress who increasingly make laws in close consultation with the businesses who are supposed to follow them. To no one's surprise the laws increasingly free the business of any inconvenient barriers and restraints, such as customer's rights, environmental concerns.

Just business as usual, nothing personal.

...There's a pattern here...

By the way, it sort of writes "fini" to the bringing freedom to China through busniess fable, doesn't it...
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