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Chris Smith: I am glad you brought that up, because I am the one who asked Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Cisco here to testify, and…

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
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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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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

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