Congress May Penalize Tech Companies That Cooperate With ‘Internet Restricting’ Governments
October 24th, 2007 by
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all doing business in China. There’s been bad PR and even congressional hearings for Yahoo about its cooperation with the Chinese government in the country’s effort to censor the Internet and crack down on dissent. Turkey and Thailand have blocked YouTube, and so on.
Now this article from Forbes describes US Congressional efforts “to penalize U.S. companies up to $2 million if they cooperate with the technological surveillance of political dissidents or share technology and information used for ‘Internet-restricting’ purposes.”
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