Taking tech companies to task over China
House members on Wednesday condemned Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies for kowtowing to Beijing.
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Microsoft and blog-censoring
Jack Krumholtz, Microsoft's associate general counsel and managing director of federal government affairs, talks about blog censorhip on MSN.
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How does Google decide what to censor?
Elliot Schrage, Google's vice president of corporate communications and corporate affairs, explains to members of Congress Google's deal to operate inside China.
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Did Cisco help China censor Internet?
At Wednesday's hearing in Washington, Cisco Systems Vice President and General Counsel Mark Chandler says Internet routers all have built-in filtering capability, and that it's controlled by the service providers.
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Tech giants' 'nauseating collaboration'
In a House subcommittee hearing for global human rights, Rep. Tom Lantos, D.-Calif., accuses four major U.S. technology companies of "complete compliance" with Chinese repression of civil rights and political dissent. Their actions are, he says, "a disgrace."
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Taking heat over censorship
During the hearing, Rep. Christopher Smith reads a pointed indictment of Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Smith says the tech companies aid repression by the Chinese government.
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Googling Tiananmen Square
Rep. Christopher Smith, R.-N.J., demonstrates how the results of a Google search are censored in China. Then he lays out a series of questions on how U.S. companies cooperate with the Chinese government.
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Chinese publisher in exile testifies
Harry Wu, publisher of the China Information Center, speaks to a House subcommittee about the punishment of dissidents in China. Wu said Cisco gear is used to help police surveillance there.
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Can the NSA look at your e-mail?
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., asks Yahoo spokesman and general counsel Michael Callahan whether the NSA has access to the e-mail of private American citizens. Hear the discussion during the hearing on Internet security and censorship in China.