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Google and Internet Control in China: A Nexus Between Human Rights and Trade?

2010-03-24T14:00:00 - 2010-03-24T15:30:00
628 Dirksen Senate Office Building

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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 examined 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 included technology industry representatives and human rights advocates.

View a recorded webcast of this hearing here.

Opening Statements

Senator Byron Dorgan, Chairman

Representative Christopher H. Smith

Representative David Wu

Senator George LeMieux

Witnesses

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

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

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Ms. Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China

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

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Ambassador Mark Palmer

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Submitted for the Record:

Ms. Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

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