{"id":10231,"date":"2018-09-15T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10231"},"modified":"2018-09-15T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:58:44","slug":"house-lawmakers-press-google-over-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10231","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE LAWMAKERS PRESS GOOGLE OVER CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong>\u00a0bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from Google after multiple media reports detailed the internet giant&#8217;s plans to develop a censored search engine that would allow it to break into the Chinese market.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) led the group of 16 House members in a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google should not be helping China crack down on free speech and political dissent,&#8221; Cicilline wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Among the lawmakers that signed on to the letter were Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>Google operated in China until 2010 when it pulled out over concerns about free expression in the Communist nation.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, The Intercept reported that Google had launched a project to develop a censored search service in order to comply with Chinese speech restrictions after a meeting between Pichai and Communist Party officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}