{"id":4163,"date":"2010-03-25T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:08:41","slug":"congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/03\/25\/congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Rebukes Microsoft&#8217;s Chinese Censorship, Microsoft Fires Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Congress+Rebukes+Microsofts+Chinese+Censorship+Microsoft+Fires+Back\/article17984.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4164\" title=\"100326_microsoft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100326_microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Rep. Smith, R-N.J.:&#8221;They [Microsoft] need to get on the right side of human rights rather than enabling tyranny, which they&#8217;re doing right now.&#8221; There has been much talk about Google&#8217;s decision to pull out of China while Microsoft has remained directly complicit in Chinese internet censorship.\u00c2\u00a0 Today a bipartisan U.S. Congressional panel praised Google&#8217;s actions, while admonishing Microsoft. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D warned, &#8220;China wants to participate in the marketplace of goods but keep the marketplace of ideas outside their country.\u00c2\u00a0 Only when China respects human rights and allows the free flow of ideas &#8230; only then will they be treated as a full member of the international community.&#8221; Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. praised Google, commenting that the company&#8217;s decision to uncensor its Chinese search was &#8220;a remarkable, historic and welcomed action.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Congress+Rebukes+Microsofts+Chinese+Censorship+Microsoft+Fires+Back\/article17984.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA , China|  Company \u2014 EthicalQuote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=14\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Congress+Rebukes+Microsofts+Chinese+Censorship+Microsoft+Fires+Back\/article17984.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Tech<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Smith, R-N.J.:&#8221;They [Microsoft] need to get on the right side of human rights rather than enabling tyranny, which they&#8217;re doing right now.&#8221; There has been much talk about Google&#8217;s decision to pull out of China while Microsoft has remained directly complicit in Chinese internet censorship.\u00c2\u00a0 Today a bipartisan U.S. Congressional panel praised Google&#8217;s actions,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-microsoft","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}