Slashdot | Shareholders Pressure Internet Companies on Rights: "whamett writes 'A group of investment firms is putting their shareholder weight behind asking high-tech companies that deal with repressive regimes to pay more attention to rights violations. Meanwhile, two of the firms have drafted a separate resolution for Cisco shareholders that's up for vote on Tuesday. All this comes not long after Yahoo's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.' This isn't the first time that investment firms have stepped up to the plate on human rights violations."

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