View a recorded webcast of this hearing here.

Witnesses:

Alan Davidson, Director of U.S. Public Policy, Americas, Google, Inc.

Christine Jones, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, The Go Daddy Group

Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China

Edward Black, President and CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association

Ambassador Mark Palmer

Testimony submitted for the record by Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Statement by Chinese Internet Bureau of the Information Office of the State Council

The recent Google controversy with China raises the question of whether China's regulation of the Internet is both a human rights and a trade issue. Witnesses will examine the challenges and hazards China's regulation of the Internet poses both to advocates of free expression and to foreign companies doing business in China; and possible ways for policymakers and private actors to respond to China's regulation of the Internet from both the human rights and trade perspectives. Witnesses will include technology industry representatives and human rights advocates.

A complete transcript of this CECC hearing is available online in PDF or TEXT.

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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Chaired by Senator Byron Dorgan, consists of nine Senators, nine Members of the House of Representatives and five senior Presidential Administration officials. Its mandate is to monitor human rights, including worker rights and the development of the rule of law in China, as well as maintain a database of information on Chinese prisoners. The Commission was formally established in 2000 as part of the legislation to grant China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) when China entered the World Trade Organization. For more information, visit the Commission's Web site, www.cecc.gov, and subscribe to the Commission's on-line newsletter.