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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.
God only knows why it should be surprising that media companies would cover up atrocities in foreign countries to maintain access. It's not like Americans would really care, or need any excuse to dislike Iraq. Considering that the media companies have repeatedly gone after the Bush administration's lies with only the most soft-hitting reporting, in order to maintain access to top-level officials by not pissing them off, who would be surprised that they do the same thing in countries that are even less important to their viewers?
Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.
Lol it's probably no coincidence that the top 3 news anchormen all disappeared from top news networks between end of 2004 and beginning of 2005.
1 - Tom Brokaw
2 - Peter Jennings
3 - Dan Rathers
Want some good material for your next conspiracy book? Maybe they want to tell the truth, but they'd be damn if they tried. Maybe nostradamas was trying to tell us something with MABUS being the antichrist. A combo of osaMA BUSh?