China recently accused the US of online warfare during Iran’s election. I’m not sure if they would have said something if they had been playing nice. The state department decided not to play nice. I thought that was the core mission for them. Their job was to be diplomatic and keep us out of anything troublesome. Somebody must be making stuff up as they go over there.

Now I don’t know who’s the kettle and who’s the pot in this case. We both know good and well that any country worth their silica has an “army” able to run a cyber war. We’re all doing it, just like with nuclear arms.

My first thought was that Hilary was pulling a Bill with the Wag the Dog episode over in Bosnia to get people’s minds off of what was happening domestically. Why not blame the Chinese for ruining our economy by messing with Google. Otherwise, could she really be so arrogant to think she could point the finger at the Chinese and they would just roll over?

From a security point of view, none of this makes sense to me. Why go bragging about your cyber war capabilities and then get indignant when another world power goes pointing their finger at us.

The real problem I have is why does the US have to protect Google in this matter? They went into China knowing full and well what life was like in China. Somebody from Nevada wouldn’t think they could drive a motor home into Utah and set up a mobile gambling casino. Why would anybody support Google’s decision to thumb their noses to the Chinese in China? Maybe they need to consider St. Ambrose’s advice to St. Augustine back in Rome.

Google decides they’re not going to censor their search results for China anymore. This is because they’re mad that China hacked into their email accounts to get information on human rights activists. So Chinese human rights activists are important than a bunch of people in Mumbai?

If Google wants to stretch the envelope and become search engine activists, I say go for it. I miss the old Alta Vista days. Maybe this could mix up the whole Google search engine monopoly. Give some of those other companies a leg up into the fray. I bet somebody over at Bing is thanking their lucky stars that Google’s decided to take a stand over their in China.

Bottom line, I’m not going to listen to anything the Chinese have to say about how we should be acting here. Especially about anything related to computers and the Internet. Hello, Titanrain? How’s that for a cool name? I’m surprised anybody would take what they say seriously. I mean, look what they do to people over there. Oh, right, that’s what’s got Google in a tizzy over there. Look Google can do whatever they want. They just need to be prepared to accept the aftermath.

If anything, I think the US had a chance to think through on the ramifications of their policy to pull instant messaging services to countries where we had sanctions. Hey, how else are they going to spread unrest and trouble otherwise? I don’t think airplane leaflet distribution has the same level of sophistication.