links for 2006-02-16

• Urs Gasser : Information Ethics: U.S. Hearing, but Global Responsibility
  "the concern, challenge, and project – designing business activities that respect and foster human rights in a globalized economy with local laws and policies, including restrictive or even repressive regulatory regimes – are truly international in na
  (tags: internet censorship freespeech china chineseinternetresearch)
• Why tech is right on China - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
  " But no one should even want the tech companies to try to decide which government policies are legitimate, or dictate what the Chinese leaders should do to promote development and democracy. Advocate and advise: Fine. Boycott: No. Indeed, congr
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights internet google microsoft yahoo cisco)
• || RedState - Live from the Hearing Room
  "I'm live on the air here from 2172 Rayburn. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights cisco microsoft google yahoo)
• Politicians lash out at tech firms over China | CNET News.com
  "Politicians lashed out at U.S. Internet companies on Wednesday, accusing them of collaborating with China's "regime of repression" and pledging to enact a law soon to make such cooperation illegal."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship freespeech humanrights cisco yahoo google microsoft)
• FT.com / China / Society - New breed of fixers in Chinese struggle for rights
  "After a meeting with farmers disgruntled over the confiscation of their land in a small village near Beijing, the middleman who engineered the encounter asked if the journalists were satisfied with their interview."
  (tags: china humanrights)
• Macworld: News: US lawmakers scold tech companies for China censorship
  "Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday ripped into four U.S. technology companies, calling them a “disgrace” for allowing the Chinese government to censor some Web content."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship freespeech humanrights google cisco yahoo microsoft GOFA)
• » The economic weight of the blogs | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com
  "As a summary, the blogging phenomenon is just marginal economically speaking. But bloggers themselves are different because they're writers, they have a voice and they're real customers of real products."
  (tags: blogs)
• Good Morning Silicon Valley: But we're only giant, powerful tech companies ... how could we possibly make a difference?
  "Given a choice, representatives of four big tech companies probably wouldn't be spending the day sitting in front of a congressional panel getting their eyebrows singed by accusations that they consort with torturers. But there they sat today"
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship microsoft google yahoo cisco humanrights GOFA)
• The Web and China: Not So Simple
  " Despite the public rhetoric, the debate about U.S. Internet companies in China goes well beyond the poles of adhering to local laws or spurning China altogether. In between the two, there are rich and interesting possibilities -- starting with better t
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech humanrights google yahoo microsoft cisco GOFA)
• Macleans.ca | Top Stories | Business | Yes, Master
  "But the questions of human rights and corporate ethics in China go far beyond a single industry and a handful of companies."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech internet humanrights GOFA google microsoft yahoo cisco)