Google's got the right idea, but will Congress listen?
news.com     May 20, 2008            

A collection of tech companies are trooping to Congress today to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law. Fairly or not, politicians have held the tech industry's feet to the fire over sundry issues touching on human rights in the age of the Internet. But in... [read full story]                

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