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Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Software doesn't kill people... by dreamchaser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evil tyrannical governments kill people.

  2. Re:Yes, and IBM... by Colonel+Cholling · · 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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