Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Ed Black, President and CEO
CCIA is a nonprofit membership organization that lobbies for open markets; open systems; open networks; and full, fair, and open competition in the computer, telecommunications, and Internet industries. Ed Black has been president and CEO of CCIA since 1995. The following is excerpted from his testimony during the March 24, 2010, Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing on “Google and Internet Control in China: A Nexus Between Human Rights and Trade?” For too long the U.S. business community has had insufficient support from the U.S. Government in responding to other nations’ efforts to censor or spy on their citizens and to…
