{"id":5138,"date":"2010-09-14T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2010-09-16T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T12:25:03","slug":"microsoft-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/09\/14\/microsoft-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/opinion\/15wed2.html?_r=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5141\" title=\"100916_microsoft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/100916_microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Microsoft made the right decision to stop helping Russian authorities  use claims of software piracy to harass and silence dissenters. On  Monday, it announced that it is barring its lawyers from taking part in  such cases and will provide a blanket software license to advocacy  groups and news media outlets in Russia, undercutting the Kremlin\u2019s  tactic.\t\tStill, Microsoft\u2019s willingness to lend itself to politically motivated investigations \u2013 it changed course only after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/12\/world\/europe\/12raids.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> by Clifford Levy in The Times on Sunday \u2013 suggests a shocking failure  of corporate responsibility. The Times said lawyers for Microsoft  bolstered state police in politically tinged cases across Russia. They  made statements suggesting the company was a victim and called for  criminal charges. After police seized a dozen computers from a Siberian  environmental group, the group said all its software was legally  licensed and asked Microsoft to confirm this. Microsoft would not. The  police used information from the computers to track down and interrogate  some of the group\u2019s supporters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/opinion\/15wed2.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Russia |  Company: Microsoft | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/opinion\/15wed2.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\">The New-York Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<h1 class=\"articleHeadline\">Microsoft and Russia<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft made the right decision to stop helping Russian authorities use claims of software piracy to harass and silence dissenters. On Monday, it announced that it is barring its lawyers from taking part in such cases and will provide a blanket software license to advocacy groups and news media outlets in Russia, undercutting the Kremlin\u2019s&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":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}