{"id":25212,"date":"2018-12-12T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25212"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:22:20","slug":"google-ceo-grilled-on-china-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25212","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO grilled on China plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN Business)<\/cite>Google chief executive Sundar Pichai appeared on Capitol Hill Wednesday where he faced questions from lawmakers on a number of issues, including data privacy, misinformation, a search product being developed for China, and allegations from Republicans that the search engine giant is biased against conservative users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;All of these topics &#8212; competition, censorship, bias, and others &#8212; point to one fundamental question that demands the nation&#8217;s attention: Are America&#8217;s technology companies serving as instruments of freedom\u2014or instruments of control?&#8221; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at the outset of the hearing, which was held by the House Judiciary Committee. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">McCarthy added, &#8220;[T]he Free World depends on a free Internet. We need to know that Google is on the side of the Free World, and that it will provide its services free of anti-competitive behavior, political bias, and censorship.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN Business)Google chief executive Sundar Pichai appeared on Capitol Hill Wednesday where he faced questions from lawmakers on a number of issues, including data privacy, misinformation, a search product being developed for China, and allegations from Republicans that the search engine giant is biased against conservative users.&#8221;All of these topics &#8212; competition, censorship, bias,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}