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Google Has Its Rosa Parks Moment -- I'm published by Seeking Alpha today
Howard Richman, 1/18/2010
Here's how I begin:
On Martin Luther King’s birthday we should also remember Rosa Parks who started it all. She got on a public bus in Montgomery Alabama and refused to move to the back of the bus, where blacks were supposed to sit. Then Martin Luther King organized the bus boycott that changed history.
Similarly, American corporations have been forced to sit in the back of the bus in China. Google (GOOG) was being forced to censor democratic opinion in order to do business in China. But Google had its last straw when the Chinese government hacked its website in order to read the gmail e-mails of Chinese dissidents.
You can read my entire commentary at: http://seekingalpha.com/article/183036-google-has-its-rosa-parks-moment
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