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Internet Firms to Defend Policies

Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will go on Capitol Hill today to defend corporate policies for dealing with China that they say balance business interests with human-rights concerns. In testimony before the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Yahoo plans to argue that the presence of the Internet does good for closed societies even when censored or restricted. Full Story