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Insider Report: China Uses Microsoft for Internet Crackdown Special from NewsMax's Most Informed Sources Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. China Uses Microsoft for Internet Crackdown
The Chinese government is up to its same old tricks, this time censoring the Internet and, of course, jailing political dissenters.
Ironically, Chinese officials are being aided and abetted in their repressive policies by the country that worships free speech, or at least by some of its companies. The London Observer has reported that Amnesty International identified Microsoft as one of the major companies in the West helping to further "the dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for Internet-related offenses."
Amnesty said multinational companies ought to "seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights."
But a representative of Microsoft said, "We are focused on delivering the best technology to people throughout the world. However, how that technology is used is with the individual and ultimately not in the company's control."
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2. Janet Jackson's Strip: Economic Payoff
Just when you thought we had heard the last, Forbes has come out with a whole new take on the Janet Jackson halftime incident, showing us the positive effect of Jackson's wardrobe malfunction on the economy.
Applying the same principle as the reports that argue stadiums funded by taxpayers return much more to them in increased revenue to the community, Forbes' analysis estimates:
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3. Rolling Stone Blames Obscenity Worries on Republicans
A Rolling Stone article entitled "Republicans Blast Bono" details the bi-partisan support of an FCC crackdown on broadcasters who allow words like f***, which the singer uttered on the 2003 Golden Globes awards show.
Despite the magazine's headline, a few Democrats don't like the obscenity. South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest "Fritz" Holings has teamed up with other Republicans to ask the FCC to revoke the license of television stations that broadcast repeatedly material that is indecent.
The resolution was a response to FCC chairman Michael Powell's speech to the National Press Club attacking profane speech as abhorrent and irresponsible. Rocker Steve Earle defended Bono, saying that no one except the Christian right "gives a f***" about whether someone uses profanity over the airwaves.
And one network spokesman, Scott Grogan, said such "unguarded moments" are exactly what makes live T.V. so exciting and "vital."
For his part, Bono's excuse was simply that it's hard to control your tongue when you use such profanity in everyday speech. No offense.
4. U.S. Only Country Not Spying at U.N.
A U.S. intelligence official scoffed at recent BBC reports that the British government was spying on fellow U.N. officials.
"This is the most ridiculous thing I have heard," he told NewsMax. He noted that it was a well-known fact that almost all countries use their U.N. missions in New York to spy on the U.S. and other countries.
"The Russian mission, the Chinese mission, the North Korean mission, the Cuban one -- they are all crawling with spies," the source said.
Even Western allies use the U.N. to spy, our source added.
But the U.S. has little or no on the ground spying effort in New York.
The source indicated that the Clinton administration curtailed efforts of the CIA and FBI to engage in human intelligence at the world body. That leaves the CIA's technical means -- telephone intercepts and the like.
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