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Principles needed on China's Net censorship - Internet companies face dilemma in China
There's only one way out of this moral quicksand: A clear and consistent set of principles for what U.S. tech companies can and can't do in China... Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute in England...sees three broad themes:
• Transparency. Companies operating in repressive countries should always disclose what they're doing, including...what restrictions they are imposing on users.
• Non-collaboration. Companies should not actively participate in acts of repression...
• Gentle resistance. Companies should interpret restrictive rules as liberally as possible, thereby challenging attempts to scare them into self-censorship.