Ah, the smell of irony in the morning

By way of Scott and the EFF, China gives Bush the thumbs up on domestic spying:

Mr. Liu also said the powers that the Bush administrations gained under the Patriot Act to monitor Web sites and e-mail communications and the deployment of technology called Carnivore by the F.B.I., which allows it to scrutinize huge volumes of e-mail traffic, are examples of how the United States has taken legal steps to guard against the spread of "harmful information" online.

"It is clear that any country's legal authorities closely monitor the spread of illegal information," he said. "We have noted that the U.S. is doing a good job on this front."

This, as the same time the congress is looking into China's use of the Internet as a tool for suppression, talking with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others about their agreemenets to help the government with censorship. Yahoo really likes helping china.

Ah, stuff like this is sweeter than a bear claw...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

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