Hillary Clinton to make Internet freedom a policy priority

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    21 January 2010

    Hillary Clinton will today promise funding to organisations promoting internet freedom and pledge to make unrestricted access a foreign policy priority, days after Google's announcement that it is no longer willing to self-censor its Chinese service.

    The US secretary of state sees internet access as key to America's promotion of democracy abroad, her innovation adviser Alec Ross told the Wall Street Journal.

    In an online discussion yesterday, she said her speech in Washington would lay out policy "to ensure that our centuries-long traditions are preserved in the 21st century".