{"id":700494,"date":"2010-03-25T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:32:50","slug":"google-freedom-is-important-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700494","title":{"rendered":"Google: Freedom is important, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heartened to hear the words of Google co-founder Sergey Brin in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704266504575141064259998090.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories\">WSJ<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>China has &#8220;made great strides against poverty and whatnot,&#8221; Mr. Brin said. &#8220;But nevertheless, in some aspects of their policy, particularly with respect to censorship, with respect to surveillance of dissidents, I see the same earmarks of totalitarianism, and I find that personally quite troubling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Me: I especially like the &#8220;whatnot&#8221; part. Prosperity is important. But so is freedom. And the West waits for China to make as much progress with political freedom as it has with economic freedom &#8212; though even the latter has a long way to go. More change will come, especially as this generation of leadership passes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartened to hear the words of Google co-founder Sergey Brin in the WSJ: China has &#8220;made great strides against poverty and whatnot,&#8221; Mr. Brin said. &#8220;But nevertheless, in some aspects of their policy, particularly with respect to censorship, with respect to surveillance of dissidents, I see the same earmarks of totalitarianism, and I find that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}