Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China

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Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 1, 2004 @03:14AM from the thats-just-plain-scary dept.

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'."

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Re:Misleading/slanderous headline by FyRE666 · 2004-02-01 03:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Is open source software never used for anything bad?

You're right, possibly the worst case being here. For some reason the site seems down right now though...

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Software doesn't kill people... by dreamchaser · 2004-02-01 03:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Evil tyrannical governments kill people.
Re:Misleading/slanderous headline by EmagGeek · 2004-02-01 03:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Going to?? You mean they still have some credibility to destroy? When the F did that happen? I must have been face-down asleep at my keyboard for about 20 years...
In other news by D4MO · 2004-02-01 03:54 · Score: 3, Funny

The Earth's hydrogen cycle has been blamed for violating United Nations Human Rights codes by supplying fresh drinking water that help keep Chinese goverment officals alive while they seek dissidents.

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Off topic for computer folks by Arbogast_II · 2004-02-01 03:58 · Score: 2, Funny

"guns don't kill, people do"

It's fine regular folks get their AND?OR logic confused. Computer people never should. It ain't an OR. Guns AND people kill people.
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Re:Yes, and IBM... by Colonel+Cholling · 2004-02-01 04:04 · Score: 5, Funny

[IBM] was shpping mainframes to Germany to track Jews during WWII

And they managed to do this even before the most primitive vacuum-tube computers were built! The wonders of temporal distortions. I hear Hewlett-Packard supplied the mainframes to track runaway slaves in the 1850s.

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Wow by Ridgelift · 2004-02-01 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Someone should email Bill Gates a link to this discussion...the Slashdot croud is on _his_ side on an issue.

Guess I'd better sharpen my skates, hell is freezing over.

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Hmm... by jez9999 · 2004-02-01 04:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China

So they've started doing it over there now, have they?

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Re:Misleading/slanderous headline by ShadowBlasko · 2004-02-01 04:52 · Score: 4, Funny

"On the other hand, if they wrote custom software for the purpose of abusing people, then I would think they are guilty as charged."

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I would like to show you two exhibits, and two only.

Exhibit One: Microsoft Bob
Exhibit Two: Clippy.

Now, I think you can decide for yourself if MS makes custom software for the sole purpose of abusing people.

You Honor, the prosecution rests.

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Re:Misleading/slanderous headline by Epistax · 2004-02-01 05:29 · Score: 4, Funny

And don't be a complete moron here man; no one is trying to stop MS for creating good technology,

You're correct on many levels.