Legislation currently under consideration by Congress would make it policy to deter American companies from selling Internet technologies and services to repressive regimes in order to combat their online censorship, notes an Aug. 30 Congressional Research Service report...According to the CRS report, posted online by Secrecy News, repressive governments feel they need access to the Internet to participate in commerce in the global market and for economic growth and technological development, "but fear that allowing open access to the Internet potentially weakens their control over their citizens."