U.S. And Microsoft Searching Common Ground With Chinese Web Regulators

U.S., Microsoft To Meet Chinese Web Regulators -- Washington Times

Microsoft and the State Department are under fire for their participation in a closed-door Internet conference this week organized with the architects of China’s repressive policies of Web self-censorship and surveillance.

The fifth annual U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum, which will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Renaissance hotel in downtown D.C., is co-sponsored by Microsoft and the Internet Society of China (ISC).

The proceedings are closed to the press but will feature a keynote address by Vice Minister Qian Xiaoqian of Beijing's State Council Information Office - the government agency responsible for news media censorship in China.

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My Comment: I call this "making a deal" with the devil.