Repressive governments are making Internet and technology companies allies in their efforts to censor the Internet. Without any U.S. regulation to specifically prevent this, companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have sacrificed international human rights standards, and their own corporate missions, in pursuit of new and lucrative markets. Ask your Representative to support H.R. 275, the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prevent U.S. companies from carrying out or facilitating the suppression of online speech in repressive countries.
the thoughts of one Robert Stribley, who plans to contribute his dispatches with characteristic infrequency
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Support the Global Online Freedom Act
Via Amnesty International, support the Global Online Freedom Act:
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censorship,
human rights
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