{"id":6264,"date":"2006-02-17T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/02\/17\/qa-congressman-tom-lantos-red-herring\/"},"modified":"2006-02-17T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:52:53","slug":"qa-congressman-tom-lantos-red-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/02\/qa-congressman-tom-lantos-red-herring\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Congressman Tom Lantos &#8211; Red Herring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=15779&hed=Q%26A%3A+Congressman+Tom+Lantos&sector=Industries&subsector=InternetAndServices\" target=\"_blank\">From Red Herring<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lantos.house.gov\/hor\/ca12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Representative Tom Lantos<\/a>, whose district includes part of Silicon Valley, has been an outspoken critic of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco regarding <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/test_tag.php?id=foreign+IT+companies\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"foreign+IT+companies\">their businesses in China<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lantos (D-California), a Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, told the companies in <a href=\"\/2006\/02\/state_department_lawmakers_challenge_chinas_net_control.php\" target=\"_blank\">a House of Representatives subcommittee<\/a> on Wednesday, &#8220;Your abhorrent activities in China are a disgrace. I do not understand how your corporate executives sleep at night&#8221; (see Net Showdown in Washington).<\/p>\n<p>He spoke with RedHerring.com about his impressions from the hearing, his expectations for the Internet companies, and his support for a new bill that would make some of their actions illegal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=P30&blog=china&xml=\/news\/2006\/02\/16\/blchina16.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Blame Congress, not Google<\/a>&#8221; from the Telegraph. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?ned=us&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&ncl=http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx%3Fa%3D15779%26hed%3DQ%2526A%253A%2BCongressman%2BTom%2BLantos%26sector%3DIndustries%26subsector%3DInternetAndServices&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">More on this topic<\/a>, via Google News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Red Herring: Representative Tom Lantos, whose district includes part of Silicon Valley, has been an outspoken critic of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco regarding their businesses in China&#8230; Rep. 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