Internet repression: Reporters Without Borders' plea falls on deaf ears
(Jan. 06, 2004)
Reporters Without Borders wrote at the beginning (boxun.com)
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of December appealing to 14 companies in the
Internet sector to put pressure on the Chinese
government to lift censorship of the Internet and
to release jailed cyberdissidents.
To date, not one of the chief executive officers
of the companies contacted have deigned to reply.
The international press freedom organisation
therefore calls on the media to challenge the
CEOs listed below to explain their failure to
respond
Reporters Without Borders chose 14 European,
North American, Japanese and South Korean firms
with business links to China in the Internet
sector. Some of them even directly involved with
Chinese government repression, by selling them
surveillance equipment. Others simply closed
their eyes to what was going on because of their
business interests. All of them should feel
responsible, it said, for the plight of China's
embattled Internet-users.
The organisation also publishes a monthly
Internet Repression report that lists violations
of freedom of expression on the Net in China.
List of CEOs contacted:
- John Chambers, Cisco
- Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft (copy to William H. Gates, founder)
- Craig R. Barrett, Intel
- Charles Dehelly, Thomson
- Frank A. Dunn, Nortel
- Carleton S. Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard
- Guerrino De Luca, Logitech (copy to Daniel Borel, founder)
- Lawrence J.Ellison, Oracle
- Hajime Sasaki, NEC (board chairman)
- Kun-Hee Lee, Samsung
- Scott G. McNelly, Sun Microsystems
- Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM
- Terry Semel, Yahoo ! (copy to Jerry Yang, founder)
- Serge Tchuruk, Alcatel
December's monthly repression report can be found on:
www.internet.rsf.org
For further information on Reporters Without Borders’ appeal to
companies go to:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8665
(boxun.com)
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