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But the companies argue that there is absolutely no other way to compete they must either comply with censorship or discontinue business.

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Human rights activists in the United States are calling for legislation that would prevent American companies from engaging in business practices that help repressive regimes stifle democratic movements.

Naturally, the Chinese companies that provide most of the tools used to create and host this content have censorship built into their software, management structure, and business models.

The British Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856, for example, established the principle of limited liability for corporations. Indentured servitude and debtors prisons have also been illegal since the nineteenth century.

In the context of its global campaign to end fistula, launched in 2003, UNFPA developed innovative partnerships with the private sector, including with Virgin Unite, the charitable arm of the Virgin Group of companies, and with Rainey Kelly Campbell and Roalfe Young and Rubicam, a leading advertising agency.

The Sphere Drake (1994) interpretation apparently also influenced the US District Court of Minnesota in Polytek Engineering v. Jacobson Companies and Jacobson Inc. (1997) 984 F Supp 1238 (although it did not explicitly mention the case, it came to the conclusion that an unsigned purchase order that twice referred to an attached contract containing an arbitration clause, which was partially performed by the party trying to avoid arbitration, fulfilled the writing requirement).

Several existing federal programs like the Community Reinvestment Act and the Small Business Investment Companies program are supporting the growth of impact investing funds. According to a recent study, impact investing in the US would not exist without the support of and partnership with the federal government through grants, loans, and guarantees.