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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! slammed over China
News betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. The Amnesty report said: "All three companies... [20 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 11
Comment There's still censorship though. One of the headlines in the Shanghai Daily today is 'China's press authorities order the arrest and firing of four journalists for allegedly blackmailing companies and... [20 Jun 2006]
Yahoo! speaks out on Chinese censorship
News has called for greater understanding of the difficulties companies face in operating in China, particularly regarding the thorny issue of censorship. for failing to attend a meeting on internet censorship. [13 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Ethics before profit
Comment But reading of attacks on them by politicians over complicity in Chinese censorship, I almost shed a tear. Censorship of uninvited email communications might be very welcome to many. But I would not want... [07 Feb 2006]
Amnesty slams 'colluder' Google
News Allen urged all internet companies to "resist the Chinese government's censorship pressure, which is a violation of internationally recognised rights of free expression". She added: "Companies that do business in China... [27 Jan 2006]
Terrorism and inactive kids top net fears
News Internet giving greater freedom of speech for countries with state censorship (69) Internet helping ordinary citizens to express opposition to government and business in ways that were not possible... [26 Jan 2006]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News The groups say the country is unfit to host the international summit because of its track record for censorship. The groups had organised a "Citizens' Summit" where they planned to debate the same issues... [15 Nov 2005]
Leader: Should businesses fight ethical battles?
Leader The software giant has neither confirmed nor denied this censorship but has given some woolly, non-committal statements that it abides by the regulations of the countries in which it operates. But any company that makes... [13 Jun 2005]
Ethical hacking set for MP debate
News Allan, who is the liberal democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, added: "When the Chinese government blocked access to the BBC website, people very rightly sought to subvert that censorship. Should UK... [27 Apr 2004]
China in internet café crackdown
News Maintaining its iron-clad stance on information censorship, Chinese authorities have now banned internet cafes from sprouting up near residences and schools. On one hand, officials want citizens to keep... [25 Mar 2004]
Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
News A Nortel spokesman said: "Nortel Networks categorically rejects in the strongest possible terms that we are collaborating with any government to repress the human rights or democratic rights of its citizens. [02 Feb 2004]
Vint Cerf: People power must 'censor' the web
News In his foreword to the latest Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, The Internet Under Surveillance - Obstacles to the Free Flow of Information Online, Cerf decried internet... [23 Jun 2003]
16 March: The most important day in e-tail history?
News However, some companies may have reservations about launching into an online market which has gained negative press in recent years for heavy censorship and tight government control. But Idler is not anticipating... [10 Mar 2003]
"Sometimes we have to admit that we got it a bit wrong, and this time we got it a bit wrong."
News Internet censorship is "a serious form of organised and systematic violence against citizens, is intended to generate confusion and xenophobia and is a reprehensible violation of trust. Oxblood Ruffin,... [06 Dec 2002]
Human rights enshrined in open source software
News In July, Ruffin published a manifesto that referenced the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and said internet censorship is "a serious form of organised and systematic violence against... [02 Dec 2002]
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