{"id":8538,"date":"2018-04-19T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:57:04","slug":"552-guest-salim-mansur-free-speech-to-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8538","title":{"rendered":"552 – Guest: Salim Mansur – Free speech to free trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In attempting to live up to the ideals of free speech and free trade, the complexity of achieving each soon becomes apparent. That\u2019s because in practice, neither of these ideals literally exists \u2013 even in the Western nations that rightly hold them as high virtues.<\/p>\n

Given the best of intentions, it is highly doubtful that Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s recent grilling before a US Senate hearing committee will actually pave the way towards any guarantee of \u2018free speech\u2019 on Facebook.<\/strong> His hauntingly welcome acceptance of government regulation on \u2018privacy\u2019 issues that would affect how he runs his Facebook business model may well open the barn door to the entrenchment of regulated speech \u2013 by government.<\/p>\n

Said Zuckerberg: \u201cOur position is not that regulation is bad. I think the Internet is so important in people\u2019s lives and it\u2019s getting more important, the expectations on Internet companies and technology companies overall are growing. And I think the real question is \u2018What is the right framework for this?\u2019 not \u2018Should there be one?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s a question that should be posed to the Apple Corporation, which has just been forced to comply to the Chinese regime\u2019s new cyber-security law. <\/p>\n

As reported by Paul Huang in the Jan 25\/18 Epoch Times: Effective Feb 28, users of Apple devices in China would have their \u201cprivate data hosted by a Chinese state-owned company with intimate links to the People\u2019s Liberation Army \u2013 uncomfortable facts the US company has not told the millions of Chinese users of its devices.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we can see, China has \u2018solved\u2019 its electronic data \u2018privacy\u2019 issue exactly as one would expect of a Communist country.<\/p>\n

It is in dealing with nations and jurisdictions that do not share Western ideals of free speech or free trade that the contradictory complexities of negotiating increased freedom in either arise. Minor \u2018complexities\u2019 can become the very obstacle that prevents the major goal\u2019s ultimate achievement. Apple\u2019s experience in China is but one tiny example of the challenge.<\/p>\n

To offer more insight to these complexities, our in-studio guest Salim Mansur provides a short history and context about trade with China that goes a long way towards explaining US president Donald Trump\u2019s economic strategy of threatened and enacted tariffs against China. Is Trump a \u2018protectionist\u2019 opposed to the principle of free trade, or is Trump the only one really promoting what could rightly be called free trade?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the ensuing discussion and debate about the distinctions between \u2018free trade\u2019 and \u2018fair trade,\u2019 it\u2019s good to know that when motivated by the common principle of individual freedom, more than one perspective on the subject can be Just Right.
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In attempting to live up to the ideals of free speech and free trade, the complexity of achieving each soon becomes apparent. That\u2019s because in practice, neither of these ideals literally exists \u2013 even in the Western nations that rightly hold them as high virtues. Given the best of intentions, it is highly doubtful that [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,69,1046,59,28,205,6,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-economics","category-foreign-relations-politics","category-free-speech","category-latest","category-law","category-politics","category-society","issues-economics-2","issues-facebook","issues-free-speech","issues-free-trade","personalities-mark-zuckerberg","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-69-id","category-1046-id","category-59-id","category-28-id","category-205-id","category-6-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}