tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294877.post-1153415756242171342006-07-20T12:55:00.000-04:002006-07-23T11:02:29.876-04:00From <A HREF="http://amnesty.org.uk"> Amnesty International UK </A>, this 32-page July, 2006 report: <A HREF="http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/POL300262006ENGLISH/$File/POL3002606.pdf"> Undermining Freedom of Expression in China: the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google </A>.<br /><br />According to the report, although all three companies are "complicit in the Chinese government's denial of freedom of information. . . Google has come closest to acknowledging publicly that its practices are at odds with its principles" - Google's 'first principle' being identifed in the report as 'Do no evil'.<br /><br />Even when applied, Google's aspirational principle appears to be applied inconsistently: complaints have arisen about domestic news sources eliminated from Google News for <A HREF="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5517"> hate speech </A>; yet until Hezbollah television, Al Manar, was <A HREF="http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-07-16-voa3.cfm"> taken out of service recently </A>, Google maintained it as a news source on Google News despite, as NESL blogged on <A HREF="http://neslreference.blogspot.com/2006/04/news-sources-google.html"> April 6, 2006 </A>, Al Manar's having been listed as a terrorist entity by both the U.S. Treasury and State Departments.NESL Referencenoreply@blogger.com