Watch or read Secretary Clinton’s Jan 21, 2010 speech on Internet freedom.
The insightful Rebecca MacKinnon makes a great point in her post,
“I too thought Clinton’s speech was a very welcome – even exciting – commitment by the Obama administration to advance and protect a single, free and open Internet. […] I think the toughest work will be in coordinating U.S. domestic and foreign policies so that you don’t have some policies advancing Internet freedom while other policies – especially on copyright, child protection, crime, and terror – end up sending a very different kind of message about American priorities. It’s easy to criticize Iran and China for censorship but much trickier to work with Italy, France, and a wide range of other U.S. allies and close trade partners to ensure that policies and laws surrounding Internet regulation and governance don’t end up being counterproductive, despite being well-intentioned in the short term.”
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