Sentence examples for internet agenda from inspiring English sources
Page A30 MR. OBAMA'S INTERNET AGENDA President-elect Barack Obama recently announced an ambitious plan to build up the nation's Internet infrastructure.
Many autocracies now have an Internet agenda.
Morozov on the US government's mistaken Internet agenda.
This hypocrisy at the core of our internet agenda is becoming untenable.
Whether or not the US government should be advocating an internet freedom agenda - I still find Sami ben Gharbia's arguments against advocating such an agenda convincing - any attempt to use the internet as a digital public sphere needs to consider the role of US corporations.
One of Morozov's sharpest points is to highlight the self-cancelling asymmetry of the entire internet freedom agenda.
Left uncontrolled, Western surveillance tools could undermine the "Internet freedom" agenda in the same way arms exports undermine Western-led peace initiatives.
"The impression I have, to be honest, is that [the internet freedom agenda] is mainly a public relations thing," says the Cairo-based Middle East analyst Issandr El Amrani, founder of the news and commentary site Arabist.net.net
Said Mr. Walton via Skype chat from India: "It is hypocritical for China to use Mr. Snowden's leaks to attack the U.S. internet freedom agenda, just as it is hypocritical for the U.S. to restrict the 'rules of the road' to the theft of intellectual property — claiming that it doesn't engage in economic espionage against its competitors — or even allies".
Ben Scott, who was the policy adviser for innovation in Clinton's State Department and is now based in Berlin, told me: "To be credible on the global stage, it now has to be more than the U.S. pushing the Internet freedom agenda — and the European Union could be particularly important".
The efforts could also raise concerns in the State Department and other US government agencies that provide funding to increase Tor's security – as part of the Obama administration's internet freedom agenda to help citizens of repressive regimes – circumvent online restrictions.
