Trying to effectively criticize Google right now has to be something like trying to be Micheal Jacksons PR guy.
But that won’t stop congress. [Slashdot Link] [Google Blog of the Transcript]
Congress even got stupid enough to envoke Godwin’s Law today while talking with Microsoft. (If you don’t understand what I’m getting at after reading the description of Godwin’s Law, check out his own description of how he arrived at it)
I don’t know how I feel about tech companies moving to China, but I know how I feel about any and all congressional hearings. It bugs me that the Senate has damned near the power of the Supreme court when it comes to having these hearings and indictments. I didn’t enjoy the whole Clinton thing, and I sure as hell don’t think the McCarthy Red Scare type of thing should be legal. My my inner-libertarian wants to scream each and every time I hear about any Senate hearings like this. And my inner-nerd / chip-on-shoulder-higher-IQ-than-Senators wants to scream even louder every time they say something so totally stupid like comparing anything to Nazi Germany, or critizing video games using shit statistics, or complain about any religious organization for being “intollerant”.
I want to know if a Nazi would put a foot up these guys asses, or if I want to put a foot up their ass because I played a violent video game that involved jumping on a mushrooms head, or if I’m being intollerant when I find these stupid representatives and Senators and put a foot up their ass.
Just dumb shit, that ends up putting personal politics before the issues of human rights…just like we can critize China while we have more people in prison than they do, and have something like that PATRIOT ACT that recieved bipartison support just about every time it has come up for renewal.
Ok, I’m done ranting, I just wanted to get that off my chest.