Hilary Clinton's "Remarks on Internet Freedom," January 2010

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Hilary Clinton's "Remarks on Internet Freedom," January 2010

Mark Frauenfelder at 2:04 PM Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010

From Hilary Clinton's speech, "Remarks on Internet Freedom," delivered January 2010:

.....We are also supporting the development of new tools that enable citizens to exercise their rights of free expression by circumventing politically motivated censorship. We are providing funds to groups around the world to make sure that those tools get to the people who need them in local languages, and with the training they need to access the internet safely. The United States has been assisting in these efforts for some time, with a focus on implementing these programs as efficiently and effectively as possible. Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

We want to put these tools in the hands of people who will use them to advance democracy and human rights, to fight climate change and epidemics, to build global support for President Obama's goal of a world without nuclear weapons, to encourage sustainable economic development that lifts the people at the bottom up.....


You can give us those tools now, Secretary Clinton, if you please.

Read more: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/08/hilary-clintons-rema.html

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(Added on edit)Link to original speech: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135519.htm

I guess she didn't mean English as one of the "local languages"!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Excellent dig! K&R.

[me b zola]

2. I can hear Seth & Amy

"Oh reeeally"

[blackspade]

3. Oh, The Irony....