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  • Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom - Salon.com
    http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/hillary_clinton_and_internet_freedom/singleton

    Article très hypertextuel

    Hypocrisy from the U.S. Government — having U.S. officials self-righteously impose standards on other countries which they routinely violate — is so common and continuous that the vast majority of examples do not even merit notice. But sometimes, it is so egregious and shameless — and sufficiently consequential — that it should not go unobserved. Such is the case with *the speech delivered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday at a Conference on Internet Freedom held at the Hague [8 et 9 décembre 2011 Cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/world/at-hague-hillary-rodham-clinton-urges-countries-not-to-restrict-internet.ht, a conference devoted to making “a stand for #freedom of expression on the #internet, especially on behalf of cyber dissidents and bloggers.”

    Quelques rappels donc, exemple :

    The Washington Post‘s Dana Priest and William Arkin reported in their “Top Secret America” series last year: “Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.”

    So let’s review Secretary Clinton’s list of grave threats to Internet freedom and see how it applies to her actions and those of the Obama administration. “Those around the world whose words are now censored . . . who are blocked from accessing entire categories of internet content” – check. Attempting to undermine the Internet’s ability to “enliven public debates, quench a thirst for knowledge” – check. “Ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices” – check. “Companies turning over sensitive information about political dissidents” and “a company shutting down the social networking accounts of activists in the midst of a political debate” — check. ”Those who push these plans often do so in the name of security” – big check.

    #wikileaks #sopa