Google Director Pushes for Rules on Internet Fillers

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Google Director Pushes for Rules on Internet Fillers

 

Google's director for public policy has called for "rules to put pressure on governments that filter the Internet."

Charging that the practice hindered international trade, Alan Davidson, director of public policy for Google, told a joint Congressional panel that the United States "should consider withholding development aid for countries that restrict certain Web sites," according to The New York Times.

Davidson said censorship had become "more than a human rights issue," and was "hurting profit for foreign companies that rely on the Internet to reach customers."

Wanting to appear as if he wasn't just taking potshots at China, with whom Google has had a well-publicized battle recently, Davidson told the Congressional-Executive Commission on China that "the growing problem for Internet censorship is not isolated to one country or one region. No single company and no single industry can tackle Internet censorship on its own."

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