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Hillary Clinton Calls For Web Freedom, Demands China investigate Google Attack

Publication Date: 
January 22, 2010
Source: 
The Washington Post
Author: 
Cecilia Kang

Visiting Professor Jonathan Zittrain is quoted in the Washington Post on Google's public repudiation of censorship in China:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for a global Internet free of censorship and demanded that China investigate claims by Google that e-mail accounts belonging to human rights activists had been targeted by hackers.

"We look to Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions that led Google to make this announcement," she said. "We also look for that investigation and its results to be transparent."

The agency has sent a formal request, known as a demarche, to the Chinese government asking for the review, according to a State Department official.

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"The key is not to think of this just as censorship but that this is a set of interrelated problems that have to do with connectivity," said Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law at Harvard University and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.