Tuesday, October 04, 2005

China/Internet and U.S. Tech Giants

The San Francisco Chronicle: Chinese Internet vs. free speech, Hard choices for U.S. Tech Giants

"U.S. tech giants are helping the Chinese express themselves online -- as long as they don't write about democracy, Tibet, sex, Tiananmen Square, Falun Gong, government corruption or any other taboo subject."

"Microsoft bans "democracy" and "Dalai Lama" from the Chinese version of its blog site. Yahoo recently turned over information that helped the Chinese government track down and imprison a journalist for the crime of forwarding an e-mail. Google omits banned publications from its Chinese news service."

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