@HillaryClinton Naively Believes that China Regime Investment
in its Great Firewall will Somehow Benefit Chinese Citizens
(CDT) China regime is ranked last among the countries included in Freedom House 2015 Freedom on the Net report published in October — Globally the report warns Internet freedom has declined for the 5th year running. The practice of requiring companies to participate in ‘censorship’ is well established in China and is spreading elsewhere, while privacy, anonymity and encryption are under broad attack.
Flashback: Following Obama’s November 2014 trip to the APEC Summit in Beijing and his call for free and open Internet (which was about the same time China state media said that “Obama does not have the political capacity and resources to solve issues, he is powerless to solve the structural problems in the United States. Obama has not helped his country secure more global resources…” I digress)
China Digital Times reported that China issued a directive to all media forbidding then to report on Obama’s appeal.
Read the full report here Freedom on the Net 2015 — Freedom House
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