Friday, February 17, 2006

Lantos and the China tech debacle

Lantos is being a dick. Did he just bring Google, Microsoft, and Cisco in front of the Senate to publicly shame them? What an asshole. Particularly given, as per my previous post, these companies have exactly zero leverage with the Chinese government. If they had refused to comply with Chinese authorities, China would have said, "Fine. Fuck you, round-eye." and gone off and done it anyway. Is every consumer who buys Chinese-made goods supposed to be ashamed too? They are just as culpable if not more so for supporting the Chinese regime.

Anyway, he's a dick. That's all I'm saying.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such a dick. Maybe if he had invited Exxon, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips. Given them a good dressing down. Then, _then_, he'd be an American hero!

Nick said...

Sigh. Yeah. It would be nice if Congressional hearing had, you know, a point other than scoring political points.