From the report: "For
over a decade, the United States government has sought to promote global
Internet freedom, particularly
in China and Iran. …Some experts argue that support for counter-censorship
technology, which has long dominated the U.S.
effort to promote global Internet freedom, has had an important but limited
impact.
Obstacles
to Internet freedom in China and elsewhere include not only censorship but also
the following:
advances in government capabilities to monitor and attack online dissident
activity; tight
restrictions on social networking; and the lack of popular pressure for greater
Internet freedom.
As part of a broadening policy approach, the U.S. government has sponsored a
widening range
of Internet freedom programs, including censorship circumvention technology;
privacy protection
and online security; training civil society groups in effective uses of the Web
for communications,
organizational, and advocacy purposes; and spreading awareness of Internet freedom." Read more
