But the popularity of those initiatives has become a liability.
Activists and nonprofit groups say that their online circumvention
tools, funded by the U.S. government, are being overwhelmed by demand and that
there is not enough money to expand capacity. The result: online bottlenecks
that have made the tools slow and often inaccessible to users in China, Iran
and elsewhere, threatening to derail the Internet freedom agenda championed by
the Obama administration." Read more
