Russia uses Microsoft to suppress dissent
Sam Tuke
samtuke at fsfe.org
Thu Sep 16 12:24:36 UTC 2010
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39136836/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times
"Given the suspicions that these investigations are politically motivated, the
police and prosecutors have turned to Microsoft to lend weight to their cases.
In southwestern Russia, the Interior Ministry declared in an official document
that its investigation of a human rights advocate for software piracy was
begun “based on an application” from a lawyer for Microsoft.
In another city, Samara, the police seized computers from two opposition
newspapers, with the support of a different Microsoft lawyer. “Without the
participation of Microsoft, these criminal cases against human rights
defenders and journalists would simply not be able to occur,” said the editor
of the newspapers, Sergey Kurt-Adzhiyev."
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