An international anticensorship group is calling on the biggest names in technology, including U.S. heavyweights Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Sun Microsystems, to stand against the “repression of the Internet” by China’s government. Despite commercial gains in what analysts describe as one of the most significant markets in the world — the country contains an exploding market of nearly 50 million Internet users — China remains an oppressive overseer of Internet use within its borders.
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Tech Giants Challenged To Fight China’s Web Censorship
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 3, 2003 02:38 PMAn international anticensorship group is calling on the biggest names in technology, including U.S. heavyweights Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Sun Microsystems, to stand against the “repression of the Internet” by China’s government. Despite commercial gains in what analysts describe as one of the most significant markets in the world — the country contains an exploding market of nearly 50 million Internet users — China remains an oppressive overseer of Internet use within its borders.