US Group Urges Funding For Anti-Censorship Technology

A group of pro-democracy leaders representing closed societies like China, Cuba, Iran and Vietnam urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday to stand behind her call for Internet freedom by funding technologies that can bypass firewalls aimed at blocking access to some Web sites and information.

A group of pro-democracy leaders representing closed societies like China, Cuba, Iran and Vietnam urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday to stand behind her call for Internet freedom by funding technologies that can bypass firewalls aimed at blocking access to some Web sites and information.One day ahead of Clinton’s scheduled appearance before the Senate Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, the group released petitions signed by activists still in their home countries urging funding for the Free Gate proxy server designed by the Global Internet Freedom Consortium, which is made up of several groups that specialize in developing and deploying anti-censorship technologies.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/02/group-urges-funding-for-antice.php

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