Shareholders Pressure Internet Companies on Rights

whamett writes "A group of investment firms is putting their shareholder weight behind asking high-tech companies that deal with repressive regimes to pay more attention to rights violations. Meanwhile, two of the firms have drafted a separate resolution for Cisco shareholders that's up for vote on Tuesday. All this comes not long after Yahoo's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist left a bad taste in everyone's mouth." This isn't the first time that investment firms have stepped up to the plate on human rights violations.

Comments

this just in: m0n is a bastard

[Anonymous Coward]

mighty mon is the worst person on the internet.

he is a mistake;

no
more
mon

Re:Does that include sanctions against CNN?

[danila]

The more interesting question is what government crimes are they covering in the USA in order to serve the owners and maintain good relations with their buddies in the administration.

Speaking of Iraq, the UN secretary general said that the blame for hundreds of thousands dead from sanctions lies not with Saddam, but with the UN (first of all the US). UN inspectors told (see "In Shifting Sands") very clearly that as early as in 1995 they knew that there were no WMDs left, but the USA pushed for confrontations and conflicts, refusing to let the Security Council to lift sanctions until they finally got their way. The USA is a real criminal. The USA is an evil empire. Compared with it, Cuba, Syria and China are saints.