From WITHIN China?
The New York Times has the story.
Encouraging? Maybe, but as the story notes, the critics made no mention of recent crackdowns on what is available to Chinese surfers on the Internet. Congressional hearings are being held today on how Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and other technology firms are enabling the Chinese dictatorship by making parts of their services off-limits to Chinese users.
WASHINGTON - A State Department official told lawmakers Wednesday that China's efforts to manipulate the Internet have increased in the last year, "sending a chilling message to Internet users." James Keith, the State Department's senior adviser on East Asia, testified at a House International Relations subcommittee hearing at which four U.S. technology companies were to testify on what lawmakers have said are business practices that help China crush internal dissent.
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