[governance] Internet Bill of rights, will industry consider: Doubts On Yahoo's Human Rights Code of Conduct

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  In keeping with a proposed Internet "Bill of Rights:

 http://www.thestandard.com/people/i-lamont550036 Ian Lamont
writes "The US Senate has been pushing American technology
companies to work with rights groups to develop a human rights code of
conduct, which would help to guide their overseas activities. Yahoo now
claims that it has established
http://ycorpblog.com/2008/08/14/a-new-kind-of-code-coming-this-fall/
the 'core components' of a global code of conduct, and a more complete
version will be ready this fall. However, the Industry Standard notes
that
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/15/u-s-senate-demanding-promises-companies-can-keep
there's a fundamental flaw with such efforts: US law is not world law. 
Following the local laws is a requirement of doing business in any
country, and conflicts between corporate ethics and the law of the land
in which these corporations do business are inevitable. The US Senate's
push for such a code was prompted by a number of incidents, including 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/19/2141244&tid=95
Yahoo's complicity in the arrest of Chinese dissidents and a Chinese
journalist."

Regards,

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