Re: [ga] US Lawmakers Lambaste US Tech Firms for Submitting to Censorship Pressure Abroad

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Dierker and all,

which "kids" are you referring to?

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>    Now Jeff correct me if i am sos but, are these kids out of line?
>   I mean i read and did not find one who had lost a gonad in battle.
>   These folkees makes me tear not. They ain' t lost child or ever
> dodged a bullet.
>   Now fix me up if i be wrong, but you cannot make them shut up. I
> been whooped but where do these folks come from? Have they even
> suffured Sars??
>   End of grief.
>
>   e
>
> Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   All,
>
> See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4699242.stm
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2
> 06/02/15/AR2006021500301_pf.html
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/16/china_committee/print.html
> http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,108725,00.html
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-02-15-hearing_x.htm
>
>
> (16/15 February 2006)
> At a US House of Representatives Committee on International Relations
> hearing this week, US lawmakers took four US companies to task for
> their
>
> business practices in China. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Cisco
> Systems
>
> were criticized for bowing to pressure from the Chinese government as
> manifested in censoring web sites and providing the Chinese government
>
> with customer information that led to arrests. Legislators asserted
> that the companies appeared to be motivated by profits and that they
> neglected "social responsibility." The companies welcome the US
> government's guidance in their efforts to "expand in nations with poor
>
> human rights records," but cautioned that pulling out of those
> countries
>
> could encourage the growth of competitors that do not share the US
> government's concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Jeffrey A. Williams
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Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obediance of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827