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Chris Smith: I held hearings in this committee years ago when Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo were enabling the dictatorship to…

On the recordMay 15, 2019
I held hearings in this committee years ago when Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo were enabling the dictatorship to censor just about everything on the internet, and still do, sadly.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses past hearings on tech companies' complicity in censorship.

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