Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
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There's recognition at last about how much there is at stake here. If you're a country founded on freedom of expression, you can't just ignore that when making deals with other countries. What a company does in the world affects the world.Julien Pain
We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.
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This way, any request from the Chinese would have to be supervised by ... American justice. They shouldn't comply with all Chinese demands. It's possible to negotiate with the Chinese authorities. The Chinese wouldn't ban such an important company.
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What we want is from now on, these companies, these contracts should be monitored by the Department of Commerce. That's the only way to make sure they don't collaborate on these kinds of human rights abuses.
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The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.
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