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Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China
gexen writes "According to this article in The Guardian, 'Amnesty believes Microsoft is in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code for multinationals which says businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'. The article basically states that 'Gate's firm supplied technology used to trap Chinese dissidents'."
yes we're slashdot, yes we all hate microsoft, c'mon, give us some credit.
Unsubstantiated bullshit.
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You can blame this on Europe. They have never rallied against tyranny unless the perpetrators are come nickel and dime country like Zimbabwe.
Europe has never challenged any nation that is strong or anyone unless it was politically correct.
Europe will never condemn Arabs and Muslims for blowing up little Israeli babies on buses, but they sure will make some noise about Israel blowing up the homes of suicide bombers.
Europe is irrelevant to me on issues of morality.
Do you honestly suggest that it's a good idea to invade china?
Are you mad?
We'd lose too much and gain what?, a few more citizens?
The days of empire building are over, and trying to take over and then control/liberate 2 billion people is infeasable, and China would probably win on home soil unless we used nukes and killed everyone.
That could be why we don't seem to care about China.
It's cos we're sane
That's why Europe is seen as nothing but hypocritical opportunists. It boggles the mind to watch you idiots get into a tizzy over Zimbabwe but allow China to eradicate the Tibetans.
You people are scum and I'm glad we're not aligned with you anymore.
go fuck yourself. Microsoft is free to sell software. I don't give a fuck how its used. Only a simpleton fucktard would blame Microsoft if someone uses Windows for evil purposes.
You stupid bitches continue to make me laugh.
50,000 dead US in the Korean war vs 0 EUian dead. Yeah, the US is not concerned with liberating N. Koreans.
Don't make me laugh, you EUian faggot. Europe has never lifted a finger to even defend itself let alone someone else trying to gain liberty and freedom, the so-called virtues that Europe believes in.
Europe only cares about it when its ugly, white faggots who benefit. If its Africans, Asians or Arabs fighting for those rights, Europe doesn't give a god damn.
Again, as I have said...I want a US - Europe war. I want to kill you bastards with my hands. I want to rape your women and shoot your babies in the head.
This sort of thing is going to destroy their credibility.
Amnesty has credibiblility? These are the same people that were protesting the war in Iraqa because it was EXPENSIVE, not protesting for a good reason.
Are you an idiot? Amnesty is criticizing Microsoft because they are giving tools to the Chinese government that the Chinese government uses to violate human rights. It should be obvious that they are also critical of those committing the human rights violations, not just those providing the tools. But if you need a specific example, try here. Just because every press release doesn't explicitly say "China is bad" (again, it should be implicit in this one), doesn't mean they are soft on China.
The reason they calling public attention to Microsoft is that we Westerners can have a much greater direct impact on Microsoft than we can on China. And if we can get Western companies to stop providing tools to the Chinese government, we can limit the effectiveness with which they can violate their citizens' human rights.
And, BTW, the only people that believe the Chinese government is leftist are people who wish to smear the left. You will be hard pressed to find someone on the left who would identify them as such (take Amnesty International as an example, as they are often identified as a "leftist" organization). Brutal regimes who slaughter their own people have traditionally been called rightwing regimes.