From The Salt Lake Tribune (link):
As one who believes in the liberating powers of information technologies, I hope the Internet companies won’t wait for government intrusion. I hope they will take it upon themselves to use their considerable leverage to stand up to China’s cyber-censors and tear down what many are calling the “Great Firewall” of China.
China defends itself by comparing its Internet policing to Germany’s censoring of Nazi memorabilia on eBay and U.S. bans on child pornography. But China jails computer users for posting precisely the content that is protected the most in free nations: political speech.
Considerations of morality and human rights in their business considerations may sound like a foreign concept to the go-go leaders of our Internet industry. But, they need to think about it. Sometimes the pursuit of profits demands too much.
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