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Amnesty Calls Shenannigans on MS, Sun, Cisco

Posted by chrisd on from the filtering-is-bad-mkay dept.

ZurichPrague writes "Amnesty International is claiming Microsoft, Sun, Nortel and Cisco, among others, have broken the law by selling filtering technology to China, helping that country implement its censorship. Is Amnesty right? Making the technology is fine, but if we know that it could be used for ill, aren't we bound to not sell to some countries and companies? C/Net has the story here."

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  1. the lesser known "Teen Amnesty Regional" by deft · · Score: 2, Funny

    is suing those very same corporations for selling this techology to parents to filter out porn.

    More info at Teen Magazine.

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  2. Re:Moral issue, but is there a legal one here? by JollyGoodChase · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about the reverse? Should companies help propagate freedom in other countries? Sell only to the rebels!? Free speech = right to advertise. Viva la revolucion!

  3. it's the result of too much MS advertisement by newsdee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now Amnesty thinks Windows is reliable and does what you want it to do.

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  4. In related news.. by heytal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Procmail developers were sued by Amnesty, because they helped in censorship and filtering.

  5. Re:give me a break by inode_buddha · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've met a few other people who seem to think that the entire world needs to conform to their viewpoint, namely, everyone.

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