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Article

8 Nov 2005

Author:
William Baue, SocialFunds.com

Tearing Down the Great Firewall

"Democracy." "Freedom." "Tiananmen Square." Posting these terms together on the Internet (as this article does) is grounds for imprisonment in China, which is erecting a "Great Firewall" to block cyber-dissent with the complicity of information technology (IT) companies such as Yahoo, Cisco, and Microsoft...Yesterday, more than 25 socially responsible investment (SRI) practitioners worldwide...issued a "Joint Investor Statement on Freedom of Expression and the Internet"