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[privacy] Strange Comments from MS come out at a UN Meeting
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:02:17 -0500
There is the old argument about MS, Yahoo, and Cisco helping China to arrest dissidents and further repress its people, but a very interesting comment from MS is what caught my attention: from: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10420-us-internet-firms-accused-of-collusion-with-china.html or http://tinyurl.com/vsb46 Fighting terrorism Tipson said that Microsoft is debating the point at which it would be unacceptable to continue doing business in China. But he pointed to a growing list of countries that want to sift through private communications in the interests of fighting terrorism. "We have to have a point when we decide that things look so bad, that censorship, or persecution of bloggers, or monitoring of email has reached a point when it's simply unacceptable to continue to do business there," he said. "We try to define those levels, and the trends are not good at the moment, and not just in China." ---------------------------- Hmm, I wonder if MS is going to pull its business out of the US altogether ;-) -JP _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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