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15 Feb 2006

Author:
Lucie Morillon, Reporters Without Borders

[PDF] Testimony [by Reporters Without Borders] to Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives

Authoritarian regimes like China’s are getting increasingly efficient at blocking “objectionable” material, usually with technology bought from Western firms. Some of these companies, most of which are American, don’t respect freedom of expression while operating in a repressive country. [refers to Yahoo!, Microsoft, MSN Spaces (China) (joint venture Microsoft & Shanghai Alliance Entertainment), Google, Secure Computing, Fortinet, Cisco Systems]

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