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Human rights up for vote at Microsoft annual shareholders meeting

John Harrington is a Napa, Calif., investor-activist behind this and three Microsoft shareholder proposals floated in the early 2000s regarding principles for doing business with China. The current proposal, which Harrington acknowledges has little chance of passing, notes that in 2005, "Microsoft closed down the blog of a Chinese dissident at the request of the Chinese government."

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