Google's Plan for Promoting Internet Openness
In testimony before the the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, at at a hearing on "Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law, Part II," Nicole Wong, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Google, provides some suggestions for "how governments can support free expression," including:
-- "using trade tools where possible"
-- "perhaps ... make [Internet openness] part of the criteria for receiving development aid."
See page 6.
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More on the trade avenue here, from Bloomberg:
Going to the WTO is “well worth consideration,” Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel of Google, operator of the most popular Internet search site, told reporters after a congressional hearing in Washington yesterday. Using censorship “in a manner that favors domestic Internet companies goes against basic international trade principles,” Wong told lawmakers.