officials to follow the lead of the European Union, which passed a resolution in 2008 recognizing Internet censorship as a trade barrier. Increasingly, some industry advocates are linking Internet freedom and censorship with free trade, saying American Internet companies are purveyors of information, and that interfering with its flow damages their businesses.Įd Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, urged U.S. Google on Monday followed through on its threat to stop censoring its Chinese search results, redirecting traffic to an unfiltered search site in Hong Kong - the subject of Wednesday’s hearing.
“We made a decision we didn’t want to act as an agent for the Chinese government.” cn Web sites “was a decision we made in our own right, based on our experience of having to contact Chinese nationals, collect their personal information and return that information to the government,” Jones told the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. cn domain sites, said Go Daddy general counsel Christine Jones. Chinese authorities demanded in February that Go Daddy, which hosts Web sites tied to Tibet and the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, provide color photographs and signed registration forms for all Chinese owners of its 27,000.
The world’s largest Internet domain name registrar told a congressional panel that its China operations had come under increasingly stringent surveillance rules since December. cn” domain names, rather than comply with government requirements to provide increasingly detailed information about its Chinese customers. Saying it hosts many individual Web sites considered politically sensitive by the Chinese government, the Go Daddy Group said Wednesday it would stop hosting new sites with “. A second prominent Internet company has joined Google in rejecting Chinese surveillance and censorship rules, as Google’s move to stop filtering its Chinese search results draws more attention to Internet freedom in Washington.
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