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Microsoft, google and yahoo named and shamed
MICROSOFT, GOOGLE and Yahoo have been accused by Amnesty International of breaching the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
Amnesty said that the three companies had been colluding with China to censor the Internet and are ignoring their own stated commitments.
The human rights outfit says that the three are in denial about their activities. In a report Amnesty says that all three have facilitated or concluded in the practice of censorship in China and demonstrated a disregard for their own internally driven and proclaimed policies.
The report says that the three have made public promises which they failed to uphold in the face of business opportunities and pressure from the Chinese government.
Amnesty adds that these actions raised doubts about which statements made by these organisations can be trusted and which ones are just public relations gestures.
The organisation said the three are in violation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says everyone should be guaranteed freedom of expression
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