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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.
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involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
But an hour later, they were hungry for totalitarianism again.
Can any company control how the product is used after purchase?
Apparently you can if your name is Sony. Just takes a Windows rootkit.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I was walking around campus yesterday when I saw a poster saying "Is Slashdot Your Home Page?" in huge letters. Apparently it was a recruiting poster for some investment firm. Of course I immediately appropriated it and thumbtacked it above my laptop in my room.
What?! Capitalists working on the side of good?! I smell a rat! A great big communist rat! Ronnie!! Ronnie come back and save us from these pinkos! How will I be able to afford my hummer if I can't sell a few activists out to the boys in Beijing? I blame television! Danm liberal media!
May the Maths Be with you!
Am I the only one who can't help picturing that guy typing that with the blood of a puppy dripping from his lips?