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Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ethical-dilemmas dept.

mjdroner writes "Cnet has a transcript of the House of Representatives hearing on net censorship with Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo reps. At one point, Rep. Tom Lantos asks if Microsoft is ashamed of their actions in China. Microsoft: 'We comply with legally binding orders whether it's here in the U.S. or China.' Lantos: 'Well, IBM complied with legal orders when they cooperated with Nazi Germany. Those were legal orders under the Nazi German system.'"

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  1. Re:Anne Frank by AllahsAvatar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody failed thier humor check.

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  2. USC by C10H14N2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "First, there is no "U.S. Code" (I assume you mean federal law)"

    "Federal law" is officially referred to as "The United States Code." This is why federal laws are always referred to in the form $TitleUSC$Section e.g. 15USC144.

    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/

    I'd think that would come up somewhere in your "quite a bit of research." Puzzling why anyone with a clue would balk at the use of that term.