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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Vows $25 Million for Internet Freedom Agenda

Spencer Ackerman reporting in Wired: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed on Tuesday to invest $25 million for developers to build tools that online dissidents get around "thugs, hackers and censors." It's her attempt at giving teeth to the so-called "Internet Freedom Agenda" that she unveiled last year. ...Clinton pledged to take a "venture capital approach" to funding tools that allow online activists..."

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Related topics: Censorship, Internet Governance, Web

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