Feeling repressed?
Tech firms blasted over China policies on Capitol Hill
Tech companies are starting to (rightfully!) catch a lot of flack over their complicity to restrict speech and other human rights in China. But now the rabble is aroused! See boingboing for the whole story. The coolest action vs google is by the organization Students for a Free Tibet which has launched NoLuv4Google.com to help people “break up” with google on Valentine’s day. I especially like their script to hack the google homepage (See the image).
(news.com) …Politicians on Wednesday attacked Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Yahoo for declining to appear at a briefing about China’s Internet censorship and called for a new law to outlaw compliance with such requirements.
The four technology companies said earlier this week that they were not able to schedule an appearance with short notice but would testify at a similar House of Representatives hearing scheduled for Feb. 15.
“These massively successful high-tech companies, which couldn’t bring themselves to send their representatives to this meeting today, should be ashamed,” said Rep. Tom Lantos, the California Democrat who is co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which organized the briefing.
“With all their power and influence, wealth and high visibility, they neglected to commit to the kind of positive action that human rights activists in China take every day,” Lantos went on. “They caved in to Beijing’s demands for the sake of profits, or whatever else they choose to call it.”
[Thanks BoingBoing!]