Google building a censored search engine for China

Roger L. Simon writes at PJ Media,

…China — the furthest thing at this point from Marx’s dreamed of “withering away of the state” — is no longer really communist but something closer to corporate fascist, exploiting the market while using state control in the most ironclad crony capitalism, anti-democratic in every way imaginable. But, in the true communist tradition, they remain the global leaders in political prisoners.

…Simultaneously, Donald Trump — the supposed fascist — is the one who is actually challenging China, using the threat of tariffs to get them to change their behavior about such things as intellectual property, which they have ignored for decades. You would think Silicon Valley would be thrilled about this. But no. They go their merry, greedy way, making deals with Chairman Xi, this time — how nauseating — for a censored search engine. (Well, they may have more experience with that than we think.)

…But enough jawing about these companies and how they are dominating our lives. The time has come to disband them. Otherwise they soon will have more power than any government with no one to make sure they “do the right thing.” Perhaps they already do.

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