WASHINGTON (Reuters-China, Syria and other face a "dictator's dilemma" about lag Internet control and threat, said the world embraced new technologies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.
Clinton, make your second major speech on Internet policy, said the recent Internet-fueled fall of rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and protests in Iran, showed Governments not long could choose which to grant freedoms of its citizens.
"We believe that Governments, the obstacles for the Internet freedom-built, no matter whether you technical filters or censorship regime or attacking those who exercise their rights of freedom of expression and Assembly online - find themselves in boxed," Clinton said in a speech at the University of Washington, DC.
"They face a dictator's dilemma and decide to drop between the walls or pay the price to withstand," she said, say, including more oppression and the opportunity cost would miss the new economic and political ideas.
Clinton said, would push America projects avoid Government for Internet access, helping people, adding $25 million this year to $20 million, already by technologies, tools and training can help dedicated barriers imposed on repressive Governments.
Under Clinton the Foreign Ministry has promoted Internet freedom as a fundamental human right, although it has struggled with the consequences because attempting to control the damage that causes the WikiLeaks release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cable.
Clinton acknowledged tensions over how the Internet is used, says he threw new questions about how balance these competing priorities such as transparency, privacy, free speech and security.
She stressed that while it was right to find a code of conduct for Internet activity, this by no means, but should compromise commitment to free and open exchange of technology platforms such as Twitter and Facebook that are essentially neutral.
Is "Iran not horrible, because the authorities Facebook used to shadow and capture members of the opposition;" "It is terrible because it's a Government that routinely violated the rights of his people", she said.
THE RIGHT TO
Clinton's forceful U.S. stance on the Internet led to friction with China and other countries including Syria, Burma and Cuba, which accuses the United States censorship of online information and disrupt "the right to connect."
This collision was in stark relief thrown last year when search giant Google Inc threatened to China's market amid charges of hacking and censorship to stop, although it later developed a work-around, it said the Chinese law and its own commitment to users met.
Clinton said China now able Internet controls with high economic growth, to marry, but that your censorship policy is "One day threaten a sling to be limited growth and development."
"Governments that can limit their access to the Internet and to arrest bloggers involved in peaceful activities of its citizens require security search." You can even mean. "But take the wrong path," Clinton said.
"Those who below stall Internet freedom may be able to hold back the full expression of the longings of your people for a while, but not forever."
Despite Clinton's championing of the Internet, the State Department criticized but not fast enough to secure your rhetoric with action move.
Senator Richard Lugar, senior Republicans in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tuesday released a report saying that despite his rhetoric, State Department has not fast enough for the financing of censorship busting applications moved.
"Recent delays in receiving existing funds and the inept handling of untested technology, have strengthened the hands of Governments including China," says the report.
Dan Baer, the State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, said there was no delay and assigning new money carefully, were as the United States with their Internet agenda moves forward.
"From our perspective, things are on schedule," he said in an interview.
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)