Congressional Research Service (Jul 13) - "China, Internet Freedom, and
U.S. Policy":
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42601.pdf
From the Summary:
/Since 2006, congressional committees and commissions have held nine
hearings on Internet freedom and related issues, with a large emphasis
on China. In response to criticism, in 2008, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google,
and other parties founded the Global Network Initiative, a set of
guidelines that promotes awareness, due diligence, and transparency
regarding the activities of ICT companies and their impacts on human
rights, particularly in countries where governments frequently violate
the rights of Internet users to freedom of expression and privacy. In
the 112th Congress, the Global Online Freedom Act (H.R. 3605) would
require U.S. companies to disclose any censorship or surveillance
technology that they provide to Internet-restricting countries. It also
would bar U.S. companies from selling technology that could be used for
the purposes of censorship or surveillance in such countries./
HT @saftergood <http://twitter.com/saftergood> at Secrecy News
<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/07/china_internet_crs.html>,
gf
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