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Sunday, June 04, 2006

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Jeff Jarvis

Michael,

With all due respect, I think it is just as unproductive to dismiss the discussion as "meaningless" it is to dismiss Semel as a "plain fool."

The important question here is about limits. Are there limits to what a company should do following the laws of the dictatorship in China? That is what we are trying to figure out. That is an important discussion to have.

So it's legitimate, I think, to try to find that out via other examples. Would you say it's OK for a company to have done business in apartheid South Africa, for example? Is it OK for a company to hand over users for exercising what all civilized nations recogize as the human right of free speech if that speech violates the propagandistic stranglehold of a dictatorship?

Just because other companies do it, that doesn't make it OK, I'm sure you'd agree.

Let us, indeed, have this discussion on the merits.

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