Posted on 11/26/2002 10:35:35 PM PST by HighRoadToChina
Amnesty says two Chinese Internet users were executed US firms "colluding" in State clamp down claim By Mike Magee: Tuesday 26 November 2002, 19:05
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION Amnesty International issued a warning today on its Web site that Internet users in mainland China could be killed by the State for expressing their opinion online.
Thirty three people were named as "prisoners of conscience" today, for apparently doing little more than expressing their opinions online.
Two "subversives" have already died in custody, it claimed.
And the statement, which it released today, also warns that overseas companies were colluding in a crack down we first reported last August.
The report asked China – avowedly a police state – to release anyone detained or jailed for using the Internet to express their views or to share information.
American companies are helping China track down people that the government wants to detain for "online subversion".
It has designated 33 people detained for using the Internet as "prisoners of conscience".
Two people have already died in custody, the report said. AI says that anyone surfing the Internet in China could be at risk of "arbitrary detention and imprisonment".
There are around 60 million Internet users in mainland China, with the numbers rising steadily.
It was far to common in those so called good old days to end up dead for making an off-hand remark or expressing an opinion.
Sadly, the Chinese haven't yet crept out of Middle Ages.
Ping!
Yahoo!, for one.
What's more sad is that Amrica is going back to the Middle Ages by becoming a Police State like China with the introduction of the "Homeland Security" = GESTAPO.
Another Dem Kool-Aid drinker....
They tried to outlaw any non-commielove talk here in America, too. They said something about "hate speach", but but the queers, social leeches, baby killers, and dirt worshipers were screaming so loud I'm not sure what happened to that attempt.
The article is update apparently to say that companies like "Websense and Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Microsoft" are helping the Chinese government.
But, hey, profits are 100% American, even if it means subverting American values (and human rights) around the globe.
Gee, sounded more like a Reagan Republican to me. You know - back when the Republican party was against big government?
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