Oxblood Ruffin puts the spotlight on Internet censorship
Oxblood Ruffin has written a thought provoking and scathing piece on Internet censorship; highlighting the hypocrisy of those who praise Internet freedom while allowing those who build the tools that make censorship possible to quietly profit from it.
President Obama and Germany’s Chancellor Merkel have both been just a teensy bit hypocritical in their support of the Iranian people. While they’ve voiced that support, they are also actively supporting the Western corporations supplying censorware and weaponry to Iran – and other human rights violators.
China, the country that single-handedly established the world’s most robust national firewall, was always seen as a cash cow by American IT firms. It had Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo sucking on all four teats, and their efforts have borne fruit.
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Siemens/Nokia – a European alliance – has stitched together a reasonably effective control mechanism for its clients in Tehran.
You can’t support free speech while siding with those who oppress it
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