I appreciated my friend Dave’s well-reasoned reaction to the recent uproar over Microsoft’s banning of a politically active Chinese blogger.

This seems like exactly the sort of thing that well-meaning but ideologically narrow minded and ethnocentric folks would be up in arms about, if only because Microsoft is already the Devil. We might say that Microsoft was acting in a culturally sensitive manner by banning the blogger. Not only that, but acting in a culturally sensitive way now, even if it violated their sense of ethics and fairness, positions them to do good things later on.