The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?

Provided for your research and lobbying action are the transcripts of the testimony at this important Congressional hearing
"The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?"

Committee on International Relations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-0128
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations
Christopher H. Smith (NJ), Chairman STATEMENT
and
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
James A. Leach (IA), Chairman STATEMENT

*Watch the Video of the entire hearing (RealVideo)
The linked prepared statements from the internet companies are pretty tame, but on the video you'll hear all the hard questions and evasive answers, such as "Would you have turned in Anne Franks?" or "That makes you a functionary of the Chinese government!" Rep. James Leach describes these companies as adhering to "worst practices". Rep. Dan Burton gets the companies to admit they have no efforts underway at all to create software to undermine the censorship which they helped engineer and from which they profit.
The hearing discusses HR 2216 and Chris Smith's "Global Online Freedom Act" as partial solutions.

TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building:

DATE:                       Wednesday, February 15, 2006
                        TIME:                       10:00 a.m.
                        SUBJECT:                The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?

WITNESSES: Panel I

Mr. James Keith STATEMENT

Senior Advisor for China and Mongolia

Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

U.S. Department of State

The Honorable David Gross STATEMENT

Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications
and Information Policy, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

U.S. Department of State

Panel II

Mr. Michael Callahan STATEMENT

General Counsel

Yahoo! Inc.
(Sitting on right in video)

Mr. Jack Krumholtz STATEMENT

Managing Director of Federal Government Affairs and

Associate General Counsel

Microsoft Corporation
(Third from left in video)

Mr. Elliot Schrage STATEMENT

Vice President for Corporate Communications

and Public Affairs

Google, Inc.
(Second from left in video)

Mr. Mark Chandler STATEMENT

Vice President and General Counsel

Cisco Systems, Inc.
(On left in video)

Panel III

Ms. Libby Liu STATEMENT

President

Radio Free Asia

Mr. Xiao Qiang STATEMENT

Director

China Internet Project

University of California-Berkeley (This website censored in China)

Ms. Lucie Morillon STATEMENT

Washington Representative

Reporters Without Borders

Mr. Harry Wu STATEMENT

Publisher

China Information Center

                                                      Ms. Sharon Hom STATEMENT
                                                      Executive Director
                                                      Human Rights in China (This website censored in China)