U.N. blasts Cisco, others on China cooperation

UN BLASTS CISCO, OTHERS ON CHINA COOPERATION
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh]
Delegates to a United Nations summit on Tuesday assailed Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Yahoo for cooperating too closely with China, suggesting that new global regulations of free expression might be necessary. The three-hour session on the second day of the summit returned to long-standing questions that have drawn the attention of human rights workers and the U.S. Congress: Are companies responsible for what customers do with their products? And is it wise to have some international organization adopting regulations governing Internet speech?
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* Google, U.S. companies say products benefit Chinese, despite restrictions
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