The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other US companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top US trade official said yesterday

The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese internet restrictions that hurt Google and other US companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results

By Chris Buckley

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it could launch a WTO challenge against Chinese Internet restrictions that affect Google and other U.S. companies operating in China.

By Chris Buckley

WASHINGTON, USA: The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - US LAWMAKERS from the two major parties on Tuesday issued a joint call for government action to ensure Internet freedom overseas amid alarm at China's cyber-censorship. Democratic Representative David Wu and Republican Representative Chris Smith announced they were inviting lawmakers into a bipartisan Global Internet Freedom Caucus to help push forward legislation.

The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.

By Doug Palmer

US lawmakers from the two major parties on Tuesday issued a joint call for government action to ensure Internet freedom overseas amid alarm at China's cyber-censorship.

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. "We are still dialoguing not just with Google, but with other Internet providers, to make sure we fully ...

Computerworld - Nearly four out of five people around the world believe that Internet access is a fundamental human right, according to a BBC World Service study released this week.

The Obama administration said Monday it will ease some sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Cuba to allow U.S. exports of social-media software to help those countries' citizens "circumvent" government censorship.

Four out of 5 people worldwide say Internet access is a human right, according to a recent BBC poll. Even more than Americans, Chinese believe that to be true.

Allows export of web services such as instant messaging, web browsing The US Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort to spread free-speech freedoms to those countries, the agency said Monday.

And Matt Sucherman, a Google vice president and general counsel, wrote in a blog post that the company was ‘deeply troubled’ by the case, saying it ‘attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built.’

A survey conducted by the BBC finds that 80 percent of users around the world feel that Internet access is a right, not a privilege.

The U.S. Treasury Department lifts trade export limits on communications software to three countries.

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort to spread free-speech freedoms to those countries, the agency said Monday.