Obama Answers Questions on Internet Openness During His Shanghai Trip
U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum on the 16th. In answering a question about Internet openness, Obama said that the freer the flow of information, the stronger society becomes, because that way citizens around the world can hold their governments accountable. [Obama] Well, I’d now like to call on my ambassador, Huntsman. A netizen has submitted a question through our embassy website. [Jon Huntsman] First, in a country with so many Internet users, with 60 million bloggers, do you know about the firewall? Second, should we be free to use TWITTER?
