U.S. State Department shifts focus from freeing Tibet to work on “Free Internet”

January 22, 2010 - By Justin E. Gehrke

Excerpt from latest Geek Shui Living blog on MWD.com:

On January 21, 2010, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, spoke at the Newseum, in Washington D.C. The topic? Free internet of course! Unfortunately, for most of the techie crowd, she was not referring to the demilitarization of Internet Service Providers and the eradication of the overpriced monthly fees they demand in return for downloading torrents at high-speeds. More importantly, she was referring to…

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