It's not often Google teams up with the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft, but facing new legislation by a Republican lawmaker to restrict the search giants' ability to pander to repressive regimes that censor the Internet, that's just what's happened.
Republican representative, Chris Smith, has long been lobbying for the "Global Online Freedom Act of 2009," an ambitious bill which hopes to monitor and prevent US firms from helping oppressive regimes filter the Web, even if that means losing business in populous countries like China.
The bill would also stop US companies from being able to hand over user information to foreign governments for anything other than "legitimate law enforcement purposes."
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