Are US tech companies aiding Chinese Oppression?
Posted on February 1st, 2006
This article at CNN discusses how US tech companies are cooperating with the Chinese government in their effort to censor what their citizens have access to over the internet. Google’s basic stance is that giving China access to most of the Internet is better than giving them none at all.
The companies listed in the story are:
My thoughts? I think that these companies are large enough players that they can stand up to this authoritarian regime. Even if the Chinese government won’t back down, they should refuse to go along with the censorship.
Stay tuned as this story is bound to get bigger now that human rights groups and congress have stepped into the controversy.
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