China - Internet leaders cooperate with government efforts to reinforce online controls

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In the latest initiative aimed at tightening government control of the Internet, the heads of around 40 leading technology companies – including Sina Corp (which owns the Sina Weibo micro-blogging website), Baidu (the leading search engine) and Tencent (owner of the QQ messaging service) – were invited to a long meeting last week with officials in Beijing. Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, and Charles Chao, CEO of Sina Corp. In the course of the three-day meeting, which ended on 6 November and (...)

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