Wednesday, November 07, 2007
I can't be the only one to pick up on this...
Yahoo is getting chastised by the media and congress for giving a customer's info over to the Chinese government. As they should, the journalist ended up with a 10 yr. prison term. What I'm confused about is how our government does the same exact thing to Internet and phone companies and it's not an issue. Sure hippies like the ACLU make a stink about it. But in the same week that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is getting bitched out in congress, FBI chief Robert Mueller is in the same hall defending National Security Letters. I can't be the only one who noticed...
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Observations:
1) It safe to join the throng chastising a repressive government (that has always been so) - along with whoever else happens to get in the way.
2) It's not safe at all, for nearly anyone, to go against the Bush II regime. Or at least that's the perception.
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