American Firms Are Assisting Human Rights Violations By Selling Internet Censoring And Tracking Equipment....

China, Iran, Singapore, Myanmar [Burma] and dare I say, the United States [see below for THAT explanation] have adopted internet filtering technologies that block citizens from seeing sites that are deemed to be politically incompatible with these repressive regimes policies and dogma.

The newest report is that Myanmar has adopted technologies developed from a Sunnyvale, California company that goes by the name Fortinet. This is apparently being done despite an embargo or sanction on the selling of high-tech equipment to Myanmar by US companies.

None of these things can or would happen without the express consent of Fortinet, or other hardware and software providers such as Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco and the cabal of other technology firms that value profits over moral obligations.

However, it would be difficult for the US Congress to outlaw the selling of this equipment to foreign government or companies that desire to install the troubling equipment since I suspect that most of it was originally developed for internal US consumption. Due to the plethora of sexual harassment rules at US companies, corporations are forced to block the content of websites that may be deemed inappropriate in the workplace lest they face expensive and time consuming lawsuits from victims. Additionally, there are lots of stuff that allow parents to monitor and block the sites that their children can view and use to protect them from offensive internet material.

So what is good for the goose is good for the gander. By allowing companies in the US to block sites that they deem inappropriate, then the US Congress would be hard-pressed to be able to justify not selling these technologies to others. The US would be forced to reverse a couple of decades of rules and regulations and sexual harassment precedents set by courts in order to free up the ability of our overseas friends to see banned material.