From Wired News:
Lawmakers blasted four U.S. tech giants Wednesday, accusing them of willingly helping China suppress dissent in return for access to a booming internet market.
Representatives from Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems. and Google defended themselves at a House International Relations subcommittee hearing, but a Google official acknowledged that figuring out China’s internet market “has been a difficult exercise.”
Lawmakers, however, were skeptical of what several saw as the companies’ efforts to explain their business practices in China only after a recent crush of negative media and government attention.