Western Software Used to Support Censorship

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 14, 2005 @12:41AM from the two-sides-of-a-coin dept.

just_another_sean writes "The NYT has an interesting summary of a study done by the OpenNet Initiative about Western software companies developing and profiting from censorship and Internet filtering tools used by repressive regimes. This particular study focuses on censorship in Myanmar, a country that is currently under American sanctions. Are these software companies simply selling a product and should not be concerned with how it is used or are they contributing to the problems of these repressive regimes?"

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Priorities by Bob3141592 · 2005-10-14 01:16 · Score: 5, Funny

I am appalled that US software is being used to suppress individual rights overseas, when there's obviously so much more that needs to be done to suppress individual rights here at home.

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