[governance] Tech Giants In Human Rights Deal

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Where the rubber meets the road?  Sorry, but I had to laugh
when first reading this.  >:)  Codes of conduct by major
corporations are folly and always have been.  For Google,
Yahoo, and MS to expect me or any reasonable and/or
experienced person of the world to believe such from same
is to suggest to us that we are fools and/or deserve to be
fooled even if we are not.  My first question to the leaders
of these organizations would be and has been:  Whom is to
ensure that such codes of conduct are adhered to, and what
exactly are those codes of conduct?  My second question
would be would these "Tech Giants" adhere to a set of codes
of conduct that were set and policed by their customers and
consumers?

See:
"Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global a
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7696356.stm
code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free
speech and against official intrusion." Anyone want to know what this
means for China & Australia? I bet it means even less to all of us in
America where every major data center has a secret room where the
government sniffs our packets.

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
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liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
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