LIBERAL traitor filth tech co. owners a country unto themselves
- From: "Leftists = traitors" <rander3127@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jan 2006 15:10:31 -0800
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, all run by LIBERALS who are only too
happy
to crush the emerging democracy in China to appease RED Chinese rulers.
-Rich
The leading US-based Internet companies are showing little interest in
attending a Congressional briefing on worries that the firms are
bending to the wishes of China's censors.
Microsoft and Cisco Systems have refused to attend the event, while
Google and Yahoo are non-committal, officials said.
The firms were asked to attend the February 1 briefing by the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus following uproar caused by search
giant Google's decision last week to censor websites and content banned
by China's propaganda chiefs.
"We have heard from Microsoft that no representative from the company
will attend the briefing. So, with Cisco Systems, this makes two
companies that have confirmed they're opting out," Lynne Weil,
spokeswoman for caucus co-chairman Democratic Representative Tom
Lantos, told AFP.
As the briefing date gets closer, "others are still unfortunately
keeping us in suspense," she said. "It is mystifying why these
companies would not want to take part after all this is an opportunity
to clear their names," Weil said.
Google agreed to censor websites and content in its search service
launched Wednesday in China.
The move followed similar actions by rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in
cooperating with Chinese censorship.
Cisco's technology-savvy machinery allegedly censors Internet messages
and helps Beijing track down Chinese cyber dissidents.
Americans believed Internet growth will bring about greater freedom of
expression and political openness in China but instead of promoting
these values, some US firms have been charged with aiding -- or at
least complying -- with Chinese Internet censorship, said a statement
by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
Its briefing is scheduled to be chaired by Democratic Representative
Tim Ryan, lead sponsor of a bipartisan legislation seeking to address
China's "manipulation and undervaluation" of its currency.
Weil said all five non-governmental groups invited to the briefing had
confirmed participation. They were media watchdog Reporters without
Borders, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Toronto
University and Harvard Law School.
"It is a sham that the American Internet firms are refusing to be
accountable to US Congress and at the same time working hand in glove
with the Chinese authorities," said T. Kumar, Amnesty's advocacy
director for Asia.
"It is also a paradox that while US multinational companies are for
example prohibited from doing any business or trade with Myanmar
following human rights sanctions there, Google and others are colluding
with the Chinese government in human rights abuses," he charged.
Kumar called the US Congress to enact laws preventing American firms
from joining any state-sponsored stifling of human rights to give
credence to US foreign policy.
Amnesty is treating as "prisoner of conscience" a Chinese journalist
jailed last year by Beijing following information provided by search
engine Yahoo under court order, he said.
Google and other US Internet companies have also been invited for
another Congressional meeting on February 15, convened by the House of
Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and
International Operations.
Chris Smith, the Republican Representative chairing the panel, is
considering legislation requiring Internet companies to locate e-mail
servers outside "repressive countries," his spokesman Brad Dayspring
said.
Also being considered is legislation to prohibit the export of Internet
technology to countries restricting free speech, and to establish a
government office solely to counter Internet jamming by these
countries, he said.
Google's Chinese site restricts locals from searching for information
about Tibetan independence, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the
banned spiritual sect "Falungong," and Taiwan.
"If you search Tiananmen Square on the google.cn, you get these
colorful pictures of a place that looks like Disneyland but if you
search google.com for Tiananmen Square, you will find the pretty
pictures but will see the real story of the government led slaughter as
well," Dayspring said.
"The story of the students who stood up to their government and were
consequently slaughtered should not be erased from history as Google
has empowered the Chinese government to do," he added.
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