Comments on: Google Censorship Disclosure Helps Quantify a Troubling Trend–and Underscores the Need for Action http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2010/04/22/google-censorship-disclosure-helps-quantify-a-troubling-trend-and-underscores-the-need-for-action/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Human Rights http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2010/04/22/google-censorship-disclosure-helps-quantify-a-troubling-trend-and-underscores-the-need-for-action/#comment-140 Human Rights Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:05:41 +0000 http://69.164.209.119/?p=1277#comment-140 >Good work on the GNI. Thank you for mentioning that the U.S. is an offender. I also want to mention that in the U.S., like China, "mere disclosure of the requests is also subject to censorship." Read more at the American Library Ass'n: http://bit.ly/bO8oMv <br /><br />It is a contradiction that HRF is urging the U.S. government to punish Internet censorship while not urging similar punishments for U.S. government agencies and companies that engage is similar behavior. Let's value the human rights of American activists as much as Chinese ones. <br /><br />Lastly, it is also unfair that the U.S. government spends a LOT of money creating and disseminating propaganda to destabilize certain governments. The U.S. is huge and has played a horrible role in some small countries. China is one thing, but to pick on Vietnam, after all the U.S. has done is so unfair.<br /><br />Sen. John Kerry has said of the WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION:<br /><br />I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....<br /><br />They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.<br /><br />We who have come here to Washington ... feel what threatens this country...is not reds... but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out.<br /><br />...In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America....<br /><br />We found that [Vietnam] was an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever...<br /><br />Please do not advocate victimizing Vietnam again... >Good work on the GNI. Thank you for mentioning that the U.S. is an offender. I also want to mention that in the U.S., like China, "mere disclosure of the requests is also subject to censorship." Read more at the American Library Ass'n: http://bit.ly/bO8oMv

It is a contradiction that HRF is urging the U.S. government to punish Internet censorship while not urging similar punishments for U.S. government agencies and companies that engage is similar behavior. Let's value the human rights of American activists as much as Chinese ones.

Lastly, it is also unfair that the U.S. government spends a LOT of money creating and disseminating propaganda to destabilize certain governments. The U.S. is huge and has played a horrible role in some small countries. China is one thing, but to pick on Vietnam, after all the U.S. has done is so unfair.

Sen. John Kerry has said of the WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION:

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command….

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We who have come here to Washington … feel what threatens this country…is not reds… but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out.

…In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America….

We found that [Vietnam] was an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever…

Please do not advocate victimizing Vietnam again…

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