Ian Lamont writes "The U.S. Senate has been pushing American technology companies to work with human rights groups to develop a human rights code of conduct, that would help guide their overseas conduct. Yahoo now claims that it has established the 'core components' of a global code of conduct, and a more complete version will be ready this fall. However, the Industry Standard notes that there's a fundamental flaw with such efforts: U.S. law is not world law. Following the local laws is a requirement of doing business in any country, and conflicts between corporate ethics and the law of the land in which these corporations do business are inevitable. The U.S. Senate's push for such a code was prompted by a number of incidents, including Yahoo's complicity in the arrest of Chinese dissidents and a Chinese journalist." Link to Original Source
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