{"id":1919,"date":"2005-11-09T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2005-11-09T06:10:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:10:20","slug":"freedom_of_expr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Expression on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,69508,00.html\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Twenty-five investment groups, representing about $21 billion in assets in the United States, Europe and Australia, are signatories to a &#8220;joint investor statement on freedom of expression and the internet,&#8221; an initiative spearheaded by the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after several instances in which technology companies have been criticized for cooperating with governments, notably China, in order to secure strong market positions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As shareholders, we need to feel confident that our companies are not complicit in human rights abuses, directly or indirectly, and that they&#8217;re not collaborating to effectively quell internet traffic, to harm their own good reputations and to reduce their long-term growth opportunities,&#8221; said Dawn Wolfe, social research and advocacy analyst for Boston Common Asset Management, one of the participating investment funds.<\/p>\n<p>Although China and other countries have come under fire for limiting what their citizens can see or post on the web, China also is a particularly sought-after market, for the potential its vast population offers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Google have been accused of helping the government there censor news sites and blogs. And in a recent case, Reporters Without Borders criticized Yahoo for allegedly helping the Chinese government trace the private e-mail account of a Chinese journalist who was later imprisoned for providing state secrets to foreigners. Yahoo has defended its move, saying it is obliged to comply with Chinese regulations.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press: Twenty-five investment groups, representing about $21 billion in assets in the United States, Europe and Australia, are signatories to a &#8220;joint investor statement on freedom of expression and the internet,&#8221; an initiative spearheaded by the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The statement comes after several instances in which technology companies have been criticized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}