<div><br></div>So did Conroy just say on the 7pm Report, National TV, that we will never block Google or Youtube ("High volume sites")?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Andreux Fort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afort@choqolat.org">afort@choqolat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM, John Edwards <<a href="mailto:john@netniche.com.au">john@netniche.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 24/03/2010, at 9:10 AM, Andreux Fort wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Rumor says<br>
>> it's very hard to actually get your money out of China once you've<br>
>> made it,<br>
><br>
> Mcdonalds had an interesting approach in 1990's Russia where their profits were used to purchase real estate that was exclusively rented to visiting foreigners paying in US dollars. I can only imagine that this is even easier in an Internet-banking connected world, and certainly not the real problem for the likes of Google.<br>
<br>
</div>Agreed in that I don't think it's difficult for the likes of Google to<br>
get their money out. I was mostly referring to the fact that the<br>
engineering for China is surely complicated, and the network engineers<br>
are stoked they don't have to deal with phantom link disappearance and<br>
the other fun games they probably had to. I'm sure it'd annoy you if<br>
you have the gov't coming into your colo and doing dodgy stuff with<br>
your international circuits. Oh, my mistake; I'm sure it will annoy<br>
;-).<br>
<br>
I must admit I'm not surprised or impressed that they got OUT of China<br>
(would have been impressed had they said "No thanks" in 2006 - it's<br>
not like they didn't know they would have this ideological difference<br>
then). But I guess you have to make mistakes to be sure that they<br>
were in-fact mistakes, and given how American it is to not admit one's<br>
mistakes, the PR spin is what it is. I just don't buy that the reason<br>
they got out is "all ideological differences". Perhaps Sergey Brin<br>
finally got his way, and good for him, from what I can tell, he's the<br>
only normal-ish one of the three of them.<br>
<br>
> John Edwards<br>
<div class="im"><br>
--<br>
Andreux Fort (<a href="mailto:afort@choqolat.org">afort@choqolat.org</a>)<br>
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