Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Internet can allow people to achieve great things, but also do great harm. She says now is the time to discuss what if any rules should be in place concerning the Web.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says “debate about whether Internet is force for liberation or repression is beside the point.
2 billion people are no online — about one-third of the people on earth.
The Internet has become THE public space of the 21st century — the worlds’ town square, classroom, market place, coffee house and night club.
We need to have a serious conversation about the principles that will guide us.
The goal is not to tell people how to use the Internet.
In his May speech, President Barack Obama declared, “The record is clear: Rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security.” President Barack Obama’s deadline has come and gone, and Guantanamo is still open. In part this is the result of political opposition from Americans—including many Congressional Democrats—who understandably do not want terrorists in their backyards.
“Obama may have rather smugly given himself a “B+” for his 2009 performance but he gets an F for the events that led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants. He said today that a “systemic failure has occurred”. Well, he’s in charge of that system.”
