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US Firms Support Censorship in China
Posted by Ernest Miller on Tuesday, February 19 @ 11:46:46 EST Free Expression
The Weekly Standard has an excellent article detailing the support US companies have provided the People's Republic of China when it comes to censoring the Internet (Who Lost China's Internet?). Yahoo! may fight the French when it comes to Nazi memorabilia auctions, but they censor themselves on issues such as Taiwanese independence without a request from the Chinese government, see the New York Times (reg. req.) (French Decision Prompts Questions About Free Speech and Cyberspace). This really shouldn't be much of a surprise, considering how hard US companies have fought to provide censorship tools for Saudi Arabia, assisting the development of a culture that supports terrorism, as Politechbot noted (Saudi Arabia blocks political websites, fosters terrorism?). The Weekly Standard article ends by recommending U.S. government funding and support for projects that will undermine the "Great Firewall of China," such as SafeWeb's Triangle Boy. While this is is an admirable suggestion, I believe it unlikely that, in the present climate, the government will fund technologies that could be used by terrorists and (heaven forbid!) copyright violators as well. Slashdot readers respond to the story (Americans And Chinese Internet Censorship). Kuro5hin also hosts a discussion (Who Lost China's Internet?).
 
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