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Shareholders Pressure Internet Companies on Rights

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the battles-of-attrition dept.

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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  1. In other news by gcnaddict · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot has problems linking to its own stories: "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

    I hope Im not the only one who saw that when I clicked the post for 2 minutes

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  2. UN & The Internet by rlp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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