"The Survey of Orwellian Technologies" outlines the current situation of privacy invasion and who's who on the market for censorship solutions.
For instance it correctly states that :
- Cisco built the Great Firewall at discount to corner router market
-Video and telephone surveillance networks
-Buying habits and physical location history
-Net access history, web posts and email
Nortel, developed network traffic analysis system dedicated to catching political opposition (Falun Gong)
Motorola, competed with Nokia to provide location tracking
Microsoft, censors words in blog software
Yahoo, actively collaborates in tracking state political opponents via their email, search and chat usage
Google, censors prohibited sites/queries from search– Alters news results to favor nationalized news(Still, Google recently declined the request for access for its databases, compared to the rest of search engines, Yahoo!, MSN)
The worst in this case, from my point of view the experience gained by the companies, in the wrong direction.
I once mentioned how businesses don't have a business choice but to comply, the thing is now the Western media has already started seeking accountability and higher levels of moral.
Basically,
profitability shouldn't be an objective,when encouraging the further
development of such "regimes". I guess, I still don't have a content
filtering agreement with the Chinese government, but I don't even want
to..:)
The entire idea of censorship in here is to
avoid events in direct confrontation with current "reality", and I think
the it isn't wise, keeping it quiet is even worse. The bad thing is that even IBM used to do "business"
with the wrong party I guess . What is greed and profit maximization,
what is business and morale? Words we remember on Xmas's day for sure!
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