This is a trend of foreign companies that are drawn to the very lucrative and very large China market to provide it the equipment and technology and the software and the services -- it's the whole range of IT [information technology] business -- in a way that reinforces an already state-of-the-art surveillance and information and social control system. These companies are all contributing to and built one of the most effective architectures of censorship and control in the world.
Sharon Hom
This issue needs some really hard pushing. But it is in all our interests for China to develop a real society for trading information.
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The individual cases of injustice put a human face on the systemic and structural lack of protection for people's rights.
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Since they're coming out and saying some fairly unusual things, I think it's an indication that they feel pressure.
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Their presence alone will not lead to improvements.
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