Microsoft censorship lessons is the title of one of my lesson sets.

It's about internet companies who are helping China censor the internet.

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google all censor results in China.

If you do a search for Democracy, or Tibet, or Falun Gong, For a

search for democracy, or Tibet, or Falun Gong, in China, you will not get honest and accurate results

about these topics.

Most websites related to these topics are blocked. Most websites related to these topics are blocked.

In other words, these companies are assisting a totalitarian government that squashes democracy,

murders protesters, tortures political prisoners, and strongly

censors free speech.

As such, these companies are, in my opinion, active human rights abusers.

This issue and the issue of human rights in general is very important to me. The Effortless English Club actively supports human rights

organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. We strongly support freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly.

We believe these are universal human rights.

We also believe that business should actively support human rights instead of helping governments murder, imprison, and intimidate people.

These internet companies are just a small example.

All over the world, companies are profiting by partnering with brutal governments.

This is happening here in the US as well, where AT&T is helping the US government spy on their

customers' phone conversations and emails.

Many people seem willing to do anything to make money.

That, to my mind, is a crime.

In our own small way, I hope Effortless English can be a counter example, a company that supports

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