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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UN & The Internet

[rlp]

All this will be moot once the UN takes over the Internet. No doubt the Committee on Internet governance will include representatives from China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, and other such beacons of freedom and demoncracy.

/Sarcasm