Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web

A report from the OpenNet Initiative reveals that filtering technologies developed by Western countries (including Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo) are used by autocratic foreign governments to control their citizens' Internet access. John Palfrey, the director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a researcher with the OpenNet Initiative, is concerned that American companies are profitting directly from the censoring regimes, including Myanmar, which is under U.S. sanctions.

Reported in the New York Times.