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Global Internet Freedom Act in House

(Posted by adam)
freedom-beta.jpg ... SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that the United States should...

(3) deploy, at the earliest practicable date, technologies aimed at defeating state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming by repressive foreign governments and the intimidation and persecution by such governments of their citizens who use the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon has the text and references. I have nostalgia (above, right), and hope for the future.

Posted by adam on May 24, 2005 at 10:39 PM in Liberty . You can: comment, view comments (2), see trackbacks (0) or search Technorati.

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Interesting. When will the US start to learn that meddling in foreign affairs brings them a lot of enmity?

Posted by: Axel | May 25, 2005 2:37 AM

I'd feel a lot better if they didn't just limit their call for freedom to repressive foreign state-sponsored or state-directed jamming.

Posted by: Chandler Howell | May 25, 2005 8:08 AM