WHO'S RIGHTS ; In other words, Baidu is a private company that should be left alone when it comes to content. Its motivations for censoring search results can be criticized, but it shouldn’t be up to the U.S. legal system or government to tell it what to do in this regard. Indeed, if Congress decides to actually get involved with this sort of thing, passing local content rules for web sites (they wouldn’t officially call it that, of course), you realize what the end game would be, right? There would have to be an enforcement mechanism for sites that failed to meet the standards. I’m thinking some sort of domain/page level blocking could be done, perhaps with the assistance of ISPs or a new government-run technical agency.
But I suppose that would be OK as long as the U.S. was doing it in order to secure our First Amendment rights.
WHO'S RIGHTS ; In other words, Baidu is a private company that should be left alone when it comes to content. Its motivations for censoring search results can be criticized, but it shouldn’t be up to the U.S. legal system or government to tell it what to do in this regard. Indeed, if Congress decides to actually get involved with this sort of thing, passing local content rules for web sites (they wouldn’t officially call it that, of course), you realize what the end game would be, right? There would have to be an enforcement mechanism for sites that failed to meet the standards. I’m thinking some sort of domain/page level blocking could be done, perhaps with the assistance of ISPs or a new government-run technical agency.
But I suppose that would be OK as long as the U.S. was doing it in order to secure our First Amendment rights. ... Baidu v. NYC Dissidents Kicked on a Technicality http://p.ost.im/p/dQAgrx via @chinahearsay
WHO'S RIGHTS ; In other words, Baidu is a private company that should be left alone when it comes to content. Its motivations for censoring search results can be criticized, but it shouldn’t be up to the U.S. legal system or government to tell it what to do in this regard. Indeed, if Congress decides to actually get involved with this sort of thing, passing local content rules for web sites (they wouldn’t officially call it that, of course), you realize what the end game would be, right? There would have to be an enforcement mechanism for sites that failed to meet the standards. I’m thinking some sort of domain/page level blocking could be done, perhaps with the assistance of ISPs or a new government-run technical agency.
ReplyDeleteBut I suppose that would be OK as long as the U.S. was doing it in order to secure our First Amendment rights.
WHO'S RIGHTS ; In other words, Baidu is a private company that should be left alone when it comes to content. Its motivations for censoring search results can be criticized, but it shouldn’t be up to the U.S. legal system or government to tell it what to do in this regard. Indeed, if Congress decides to actually get involved with this sort of thing, passing local content rules for web sites (they wouldn’t officially call it that, of course), you realize what the end game would be, right? There would have to be an enforcement mechanism for sites that failed to meet the standards. I’m thinking some sort of domain/page level blocking could be done, perhaps with the assistance of ISPs or a new government-run technical agency.
ReplyDeleteBut I suppose that would be OK as long as the U.S. was doing it in order to secure our First Amendment rights. ... Baidu v. NYC Dissidents Kicked on a Technicality http://p.ost.im/p/dQAgrx via @chinahearsay