On the heels of the Internet blackout surrounding the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tibet, human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch is preparing a code of conduct to address “how major Internet service providers and portal operators should deal with Internet censorship in China.” Sounds like it’s geared towards the likes of Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft who oftentimes play way too nice with the Chinese government’s censorship policies.

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