CHINA

Man, is China the next America or vice versa? So Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and a few other tech/web companies have willfully complied with the Chinese government in its attempt to silence dissent. Blogs, newsgroups, etc., have been shutdown and/or censored. Some Chinese have been thrown in jail. The decisions these US-based multinationals make are morally questionable but as we've seen the past few years, ethics and business ain't got jack to do with each other.
Then, we've got the Bush Adminstration breaking the law with its whole domestic wiretapping scheme that's not so much about finding leads---as the NYTimes reported a few days ago, the info that's been fed to the FBI has been pretty worthless---as it is an obvious excuse to spy on journalists, lawyers, and dissenters (i.e. librarians and UCLA professors!).
Hey, at least we don't live in Cuba right?
Of course the Chinese have it far worse off than we do, but then again, we really haven't been that beacon of democracy that we need to be if true reform is to take place in China.

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ALEX