WASHINGTON (AFP)-erneuert US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling for Internet freedom on Tuesday, Nations, to suppress their online activities pays to say riots in Egypt and Tunisia an economic cost and risk.
Clinton, in a speech at the George Washington University, pointed to China, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Syria and Viet Nam impose on countries, censorship, Internet access or arrest bloggers restrict to criticize the Government.
Described the publication of the secret diplomatic U.S. cables of WikiLeaks as a result of a "Act of theft" and said U.S. criticism of the website clash actions with Washington's commitment to an open Internet.
Clinton announced Twitter feeds in Chinese, Russian and Hindi to start Farsi feeds just days after Twitter Arabic.
She said the U.S. would people still "repressive Internet environments" with censorship circumvention technology help, but "There is no simple solution in the fight against Internet repression."
"There is no"app"for that," she joked.
Make your second major speech Internet freedom last year, Clinton said the United States supports the "Freedom of expression, Assembly and Association online" and invited to other countries to do the same.
"This is a critical moment," she said. "Determines what looks like the Internet in the future the decisions we make today."
Clinton described in the Internet as a "public space in the 21st Century--worldwide square, classroom, marketplace, Cafe and nightclub."
She said fuelled protests in Egypt and Iran of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube reflects "The power of connection technologies as a Accelerant of political, social and economic change."
"Stop was what happened in Tunisia where online economic activity was an important part of the country during online censorship on par with China and the Iran attachment to Europe," she said.
"Efforts to the economic Internet parts from the 'all' Internet in Tunisia not continue." In particular young people, through connection technologies found on the organize and use share of complaints.
"This helped, a movement, the revolutionary change fuel, led," she 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 always," she said.
Clinton said efforts bring in the Internet "a variety of cost-moral, political and economic."
"Countries may be able to absorb these costs for a time, but we believe you are unsustainable in the long term," she said. "Countries curb Internet freedom, placing limits on their economic future."
She said that China has been cited as a country "where censorship is high and economic growth is strong" but restrictions "have long-term costs, one day, a sling to be that restrains growth and development threaten."
"We believe that Governments, the obstacles to the built Internet freedom... Finally are boxed," she said. "You?" LL face a dictator? "s dilemma, and choose between the walls falling or pay the price to keep."
On WikiLeaks, Clinton said the U.S. Government no role in the decision of a number of US companies including Amazon, MasterCard, PayPal and visa services on WikiLeaks had cut off.
"Any business decisions that private companies can have taken to your own policies on WikiLeaks force was management, in the direction or the stimulation of the Obama," she said.
"WikiLeaks our commitment to Internet freedom challenge", she added.
Clinton's speech came on the same day as U.S. judge U.S. Government about the Twitter accounts of people who receive relating to WikiLeaks in a trial hearing in Virginia instead.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described U.S. movement on Monday as "outrageous attack by Obama administration of the privacy and free speech of rights Twitter's customer-many of you American citizens."