{"id":88,"date":"2006-01-25T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-01-25T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T15:24:34","slug":"spine-or-no-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/spine-or-no-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Spine or No Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>Is Google spineless to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2006\/1\/24\/224220.shtml?s=ic\">do this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><dd>Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country&#8217;s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet&#8217;s fastest growing market.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Yes, they&#8217;re showing a lot of spine. But it&#8217;s not a sound moral spine. This is just another modern day example of cultural decay.<\/p>\n<p>Is Google free to do what they wish to pursue market share? Of course! So was CNN back when they wanted a share of the Iraqi market.<\/p>\n<p>Am I free to boycott Google over this? Of course! So I won&#8217;t use their .cn site. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>By the way, how do <i>your<\/i> personal ethics shine in the marketplace? Are you so different from the folks at Google or CNN?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Google spineless to do this? Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country&#8217;s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet&#8217;s fastest growing market. Yes, they&#8217;re showing a lot of spine. But it&#8217;s not a sound moral spine. This is just another &#8230; <a title=\"Spine or No Spine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/spine-or-no-spine\/\" aria-label=\"More on Spine or No Spine\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}