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Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo told Washington last week that they'd like their government to go bat for them and help them take a stand against censorship in China. The response
February 06, 2006

Google's McLaughlin said such notices are less than ideal: "This is not, to be sure, a tremendous advance in transparency to users, but it is at least a meaningful step in the right direction." Those disclosures might not bring much heat on restrictive governments like China, but they may be more than the U.S. government is willing to apply.

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