NY Times article Google Sees Rules Violations in Limits on Internet Access closely relates to our readings of The Thousand and One Nights. Governments in many countries now are starting to limit users’ access to internet. China is one of the main countries that is being affected by this issue. Google has recently released a policy that states countries that limiting users’ access goes against their World Trade Organization. Though Google doesn’t specifically point out that it is the Chinese government who is limiting access to internet, there are many clues that Google is directing this policy towards them. Google’s public policy director, Bob Boorstin states “In addition to infringing human rights, governments that block the free flow of information on the Internet are also blocking trade and economic growth.” Here, Boorstin starts saying how the limited access of internet will affect free trade. China is still being investigated to see if they have violated the World Trade Organization.
Similarly, in The Thousand and One Nights, King Shahrayar’s is cheated on. Shahrayar’s wife sleeps with another man before Shahzaman’s own eyes. After acknowledging this, Shahrayar kills his wife and all the slave girls as well. Shahrayar states “There is not a single chaste woman anywhere on the entire face of the earth.” The twenty slave-girls that Shahzaman saw were deceiving because only half of them were girls and the rest were men. The government of China limiting users’ internet access is in comparison to the “girls” that were dressed behind veils. Though the reading doesn’t state the ban of veils, but clearly we can see how many people take advantage of the veil itself because their identities are sealed and are not identified by anyone. This concept relates to the ten black slaves who were dressed in the same clothing as the girls. China may have many users’ taking advantage of the internet in that their identities are not confirmed which can cause an issue.
Though there are many unconfirmed identities behind internet access and the unidentified men behind the girl’s clothing in Thousand and One Nights, the ban of either one is still controversial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/technology/17google.html?scp=1&sq=google%20limits%20internet%20access&st=cse
I found this sentence of your post impossible to understand:
“Google has recently released a policy that states countries that limiting users’ access goes against their World Trade Organization.”
When I read the article, I realized that Google has issued a policy paper. In your sentence, “released a policy” appears to mean that Google has abandoned a longstanding company policy.
Google’s policy paper contends that countries should not limit Internet users’ access to information, and that to do so violates commitments those countries have made to the World Trade Organization.
You write “that states countries that limiting users’ access goes against their World Trade Organization.” Within the grammar of your sentence, the antecedent of “their” is entirely unclear. Are you saying that the World Trade Organization belongs to Google? To users of the Internet?
And how could anyone violate an entire organization? The police say, “You are in violation of New York State law.” They don’t say, “You are in violation of New York State.”
You need to pay attention to the meaning and structure of your words, and make sure that you are actually saying what you think you are saying.