Corporate Social Responsibility catches up with Google, Yahoo! & Microsoft

That Google, Yahoo! & Microsoft have agreed to form a working group to draw up a code of conduct to protect human rights online is excellent news. All three companies, whose domination of internet search gives them effective control over which websites are seen and which are not, have all come under fire for having poorly developed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) regimes under which they’ve been able to collude with some of the world’s most oppressive regimes.

Here’s an excerpt from a banned document supplied by Amnesty International and the Observer’s campaign against internet repression, irrepressible.info:

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Posted at : January 29th, 2007 - 9:11 am
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