In "Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse

question 14

Essay

In "Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse" Jeffery D. Smith argues that while ICPs may be complicit in human rights abuse they may strive to minimize their complicity. Do you believe that the strategies he imagines are sufficient to absolve ICPs of any moral wrongdoing that arises from their complicity in these abuses. Why or why not. If not what do you believe that ICPs should do

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