More balloney
More balloney from the great defender of Democracy and Internet. Today it’s not Google, it’s M$. Easier target I s’pose…
Look, there’s nothing in the basic workings of the free market, nor in U.S. legislation, that says MSN can’t be Beijing’s bitch to buy some bloggers. But remember, it is a free market, on this side of the Pacific. So first, I suspect there’s a lot of people—the kind of creative, independent-minded people that Microsoft needs—who’d generally rather not work at a company that does that. And second, there are a lot of other people who’d prefer to avoid buying products from one.
As opposed to that, maybe?
A few snippets:
Chinese Police Armed With U.S. Equipment
The Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP) is also well equipped with U.S.-made equipment to track, identify and quickly jail any dissidents. Sun Microsystems has a contract with the Public Security Bureau to make use of instant computer identification of fingerprints.
The Great Firewall of China
In November 2004, Amnesty International named 33 companies including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems that it said were providing the Chinese with technology to achieve its Internet censorship aims.
Software rams great firewall of China and M/Cyclopedia
“The authorities are running outdated Sun Sparc and SGI Irix workstations and many of the servers are labeled as firewall servers, so they were pretty easy to find.”
China: The Great Firewall
Ah well, if it’s outdated kit, it makes you a lesser bitch, I suppose…