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Article: NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER THOMPSON PRESSURES YAHOO!, GOOGLE TO ESTABLISH POLICIES AGAINST CENSORSHIP
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 31, 2008
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The New York City Comptroller issued the following press release:
New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., on behalf of the New York City Pension Funds, is calling on Yahoo! and Google to establish a set of policies protecting against the infringement of basic freedoms by countries currently doing business with the internet search engines.
"American technology companies doing business with countries who wish to censor basic rights need to establish standards and policies ensuring that universal freedoms are protected," said Thompson. "Both Yahoo! and Google are companies based on the fundamentals of user trust. By allowing these countries to censor the information the users ...