MSFT outfits Chinese MiniTrue's Room 101

By at 9:30 am Sunday, Feb 1

Amnesty International has fingered MSFT for violating the UN's Human Rights code in supplying the Chinese government with the network tools necessary to entrap and bust political dissidents.
Amnesty believes Microsoft is in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code for multinationals which says businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'...

Microsoft told The Observer: 'We are focused on delivering the best technology to people throughout the world. However, how that technology is used is with the individual and ultimately not in the company's control.'

This is a curious rationale from a company that is shoving DRM down its customers' throats, effectively telling the entertainment industry that it believes that it can and should control how its users use its products. Link (via /.)

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