Senator to Introduce Internet Human Rights Bill
A U.S. senator says he will introduce a bill that creates penalties for U.S. Internet companies that violate human rights.
…A U.S. senator plans to introduce legislation that would impose criminal or civil penalties on U.S. Internet companies that bow to pressure of foreign governments and violate human rights.Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, gave few details about the proposed bill during a hearing of the Judiciary Committee’s Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee Tuesday, but he said the legislation would seek to impose penalties on U.S. companies that violate the human rights of bloggers, activists and other Internet users living in repressive nations.U.S. companies are too often bowing to pressure from other governments to censor Internet content or help track down human rights activists, said Durbin, the subcommittee chairman. Durbin asked several U.S. tech companies, including Facebook, Twitter, McAfee and Apple, to testify at Tuesday’s hearing on global Internet freedom, but they declined, he said.”With a few notable exceptions, the technology industry seems unwilling to regulate itself and unwilling even to…
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