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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. Re:The REAL question by npietraniec · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Personally, I like the motorola HC11.

  2. Guns don't kill people... by Koos+Baster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > 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?

    In other news, ZurichPrague said: "Making weapons of mass destruction is fine, but if we know that they could be used for ill, aren't we bound to not sell to some countries and companies? Nothing wrong with Iraq building nukes, as long as they don't sell them to the U.S. (the only country ever to nuke civilian population)."

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  3. Re:I call bullshit on this one. by 'Lose',+Not+'Loose' · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Workers also loose with their POV.

    Hi. That should be 'lose', not 'loose'.

    Thanks,
    'Lose', Not 'Loose' Guy

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    --thanks for the recent upmods! i'll be able to post again soon
  4. Re:I call bullshit on this one. by rikkards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please mod the parent up as he, like Amnesty International, is trying to stop the abuse of the English Language by using awareness!

    Moderators please note this is an attempt at humor (maybe failing) If you don't like don't mod up