Western companies under fire over media controls in China
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
In their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing.
Equipment by French group Thales is used to jam foreign radio broadcasts while US firm Cisco's technology-savvy machinery censors Internet messages and helps Beijing track down Chinese cyber dissidents, according to the groups meeting at a forum on "China's media meltdown."
American search engine giant Yahoo! agreed recently under court order to provide information that the Chinese authorities then used to track down and jail a journalist critical of the administration, the groups said Wednesday.
"We are very concerned by Western companies collaborating with China" in restricting media freedom, said Lucie Morillon, the head of media watchdog Reporters Without Borders' Washington office.
posted by Fergie @ 11/02/2005 06:09:00 AM
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