Is it acceptable that an american company help communist china suppress dissent?

Question

Are you ok with an american internet company giving communist tyrannical government of china (I mean selling them $$$$) the technology to help suppress free speech, and even hunt down dissenters? or helping Iran do the same? Is there something unsavory and unamerican about that? What about those companies who do the same with Iran and sell them the technology to track cell phone users and suppress text messaging? Could you imagine companies from the land of the free doing this 30 years ago?

Answer 1

Sounds like Microsoft and Google. There was publicity when they did that and it didn't seem to hurt their business. It is unethical but not illegal so only a very vocal boycott would impact them.

Answer 2

US companies have had a long and "honoured" tradition of doing business with America's enemies especially during times of war.

While the government uses and abuses God and Patriotism to con mostly working class Americans to go fight and die in wars,these corporations never have allowed God,Patriotism,morality and ethics to get between them and the MONEY .

If you or I was caught doing business with the enemy ,we would be arrested,tries,convicted and jailed but corporations that do the EXACT same thing get a small fine which consumers end up paying for in the first place.

Their are NO CEOS in prison for aiding and abetting the enemy but a lot of individuals are.

If Americans has not railed against/demonstrated against corporations that are and have done business with countries we are actually warring with,they sure as hell don't give a damn about any American corporation aiding and abetting China.

Now,if that country was CUBA ,the US would probably just carpet bomb the place but being the bullies that they are ,the US will not stand up to China whose human rights abuses are far greater than China's .

IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY PROFIT and LYING to and using and abusing ordinary citizen's to go kill and die for these corporations and the plutocracy that is the US today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/p/05_killing.html

http://theredstate.typepad.com/texas/2005/01/iran_the_next_i.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=806

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B4CFAC07E-D176-42B2-A276-EFF1A8B9A452%7D&803604202=&siteid=intuit&dist=intuit

Answer 3

Don't assume this is a new issue. Nations that put so much stock in profit (such as the uber-hypocritical America) have been making money from nations that oppose their proclaimed ideals for a long, long time.

Is it acceptable? No, of course not. Making money without consideration for ethics is never acceptable.

Answer 4

LOL, and those same companies that caused pro-democracy types to be arrested in China wouldn't provide the U.S. government with information on terrorists at home.

Answer 5

Let's face it, America can, and does do, exactly what it wants to do. Nothing any individual can say or do is going to change that. Even the UN can't!

Answer 6

People have lost their way and these days all they worship is cash money .Soon they will receive payment for the lack of direction.!!!!

Answer 7

Sure, hell, they can even use bushes manual on how to squash dissent::

http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/freespeech/presidential_advance_manual.pdf

Answer 8

yes why not they suppress their on american citizens

Answer 9

communist tyrannical government

hehe, this is new...