Chris Smith actually said...

I am glad you brought that up, because I am the one who asked Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Cisco here to testify, and introduced legislation to hold them to account, because they had no transparency either in their enabling of censorship in the People's Republic of China.

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Smith discusses his efforts to hold tech companies accountable for censorship in China.

10/04/2011

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