Thursday, February 17, 2011

China censors Hillary Clinton's message on Internet freedom

China censors the appointments in the country's micro-sites of Hillary Clinton's speech on freedom of the internet. Among the messages are censored material itself U.S. embassy in Beijing. The U.S. ambassador to China has expressed disgust and perplexity because several Chinese companies have chosen to delete comments that relate precisely on freedom of expression.

Chinese authorities consider that such manifestations of senior representatives of the U.S. administration is meddling in the affairs of other states. Chinese blogs commenting on the words of Hillary Clinton said during a conference on 16 February on the "dictator's dilemma" to the Internet.

Clinton cited the danger faced by some countries, like China, being left behind as the world embraces new technologies to bring the network to strong controls. Clinton said the recent overthrow of the network driven by the rulers of Egypt and Tunisia and protests in Iran, shows that governments can no longer choose which freedoms granted to citizens.

"We believe that governments have erected barriers to Internet freedom are finally locked up," Clinton said in a speech at the University of Washington. "They will face the dilemma of the dictator, and will have to choose between letting the walls fall or pay the price to keep up." Clinton announced measures to help people to avoid government limits on the Internet, adding $ 25 million this year to 20 million already committed to technologies and tools that let you jump the firewall of censorship.

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