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2006-07-20 China-Japan-Koreas
Amnesty accuses US firms over China Web censorship
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Posted by Destro in Indiana 2006-07-20 05:21|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Microsoft, Yahoo, Google. On CNBC this morning they were saying that one of the companies (I didn't notice which, sorry) had actually told the Chinese government where two dissidents were posting from, directly leading to their arrests.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 09:01||   2006-07-20 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 It's about time Amnesty did something useful.
Posted by DanNY 2006-07-20 09:40||   2006-07-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 And if you're Google with all their leftwing bluster about "doing no evil", that's got to especially hurt coming from Amnesty.
Posted by eLarson 2006-07-20 09:55|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-07-20 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't suppose that AI would waste any breath accusing the Chinese government of enacting the censorship in the first place?

I suppose not.
Posted by gromky 2006-07-20 10:29||   2006-07-20 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 good point, gromky.
Posted by 2b 2006-07-20 13:39||   2006-07-20 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 I looked on Amnesty's web site, under Countries --> China --> Latest News. I'm too lazy to hunt down the link again.

That page contains the last twenty news items pertaining to China, which go back to last September or thereabouts. Of those twenty items, five are about Amnesty pressuring US companies not to help China censor the web, two are about nagging Bush to do something about China, and one is about nagging the EU to do something about China.

Therefore, 40% of Amnesty's China effort is going into criticizing someone else for not doing something about it.

Reading the news releases is a hoot, too. They are always "concerned" or "disquieted" upon hearing that Chinese police have opened fire on unarmed peasant protestors.

Meanwhile, Gitmo is a gulag.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-07-20 14:03||   2006-07-20 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Damn, I'm amazed. Finally something Amnesty International and I can agree with.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-20 14:31||   2006-07-20 14:31|| Front Page Top

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