hypocrites

I was talking about this with Bates a while back, and it keeps bugging me.

I can't believe our congress had the balls to call the tech companies to hearings about cooperating with China. I mean, here's the thing, I think that what Google and Yahoo did was terrible and stupid and sets back the whole idea of a free online community about 10 years. But let's look at who is accusing them.

Congress? Really?

China is our most favored trading partner. So our government does exactly what these companies did, we said "Boy, it's a damn shame the way they treat their citizens, but look at all that SHINY MONEY! SO SHINY!" They don't have a freaking leg to stand on. If I had been the representative of any of those companies, I would have called asked them what their plans were to restrict our trading with China until the human rights they objected to were corrected. But of course, I wouldn't get sent to one of these things, given my history of saying shit like that.

But it's so much easier to have a hearing and yell at other people instead of taking dangerous moves yourself that would endanger the revenue of your state. The tech companies were a nice big target, I just don't understand why none of the news coverage I saw mentioned that our government is doing just about nothing to fix the problems they complain so loudly about.