Congressman Chris Smith called out Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and Microsoft for censoring politically sensitive content in China and other countries.In comments sure to provoke a firestorm of controversy, a New Jersey Congressman echoed claims that IBM abetted the Holocaust and said that Internet companies like Google and Yahoo who today censor content at the behest of repressive foreign governments are acting little differently.”Did you ever wonder why the Gestapo always had all those very well-laid-out prints of where the Jews lived? Because IBM made it happen,” said Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), repeating allegations against IBM presented in a book.”High-tech is doing it today, regrettably, in places like China and Belarus and Saudi Arabia,” said Smith.
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