How China Controls the Internet

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In continuation to the post "Allied with the devil: Yahoo and now Microsoft", here is an interview with Bruce Einhorn from the BusinessWeek's Hong Kong bureau about the role U.S. companies play in helping China control the Internet.

China would not have succeeded in censoring the Net without the support and cooperation of foreign IT companies. This is the inescapable truth. This is the problem that has to be addressed.
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The business interests are so large that you will never stop this.

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Allied with the devil: Yahoo and now Microsoft

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In September, Yahoo had provided information to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist and now, Microsoft has admitted to removing the blog of an outspoken Chinese journalist from its MSN Spaces site, citing its policy of adhering to local laws despite the site in question is believed to be hosted in the USA and has nothing to do with Chinese law.

Yes, it's all about money. The day when Microsoft or any other western company looses its market in China, you will see how they will be better than a mother Teresa. But until that happens, these companies are allied with the dictators against the USA law that protects the freedom of speech.

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