Amnesty International have criticised Microsoft and Cisco for selling technology to the Chinese authorities which is used to facilitate civil rights abuses, according to the Observer.
'[Microsoft] should be more concerned about human rights abuses and should be using its influence to lift restrictions on freedom of expression and get people out of prison. It is worrying that they don't seem to have raised these issues.'

But then again the free market is amoral and does not require companies to police the uses to which their products are put. Smith & Wesson are not held responsible every time one of their guns is used to kill a police officer or an innocent bystander.

I've been avoiding commenting on the Hutton Report. Lots of other folk are doing so in a much more enlightening way than I ever could. My Open University colleague, John Naughton is one.