While I am critical of the Chinese government´s clear lack of democratic and freedom credentials, including online, I continue to be against encouraging private companies to break the laws of the countries in which they work.
Breaking laws is not the job of private companies.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Amnesty International has accused three of the world's biggest internet companies – Yahoo, Microsoft and Google – of overlooking their human rights obligations in order to tap into China's dynamic online market.
The human rights organisation says, in a report to be issued on Thursday: "All three companies have in different ways facilitated or participated in the practice of government censorship in China.
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Also see Amnesty International Press Release.
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