Thompson Targets Google, Yahoo Over China Policy
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The city’s comptroller, William Thompson Jr., is using the muscle of the city’s pension fund to take on the Internet powerhouses Google and Yahoo.
Mr. Thompson, a likely 2009 mayoral candidate, has filed shareholder resolutions calling on the two search engines to create practices for dealing with censorship issues in communist countries like China, North Korea, and Cuba, as well as other “authoritarian” regimes including Iran, Syria, Burma, and Egypt.
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