Michelle Obama Defends Internet Freedom in China Speech

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Michelle Obama Defends Internet Freedom in China Speech
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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (http://mashable.com/category/michelle-obama/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) defended the importance of free speech and Internet freedom (http://mashable.com/category/internet-freedom/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in a talk in China on Saturday.

Obama spoke at the Stanford Center at Peking University in Beijing, as part of a goodwill tour in the country. In what could be seen as a criticism of China's tight grip on the Internet through its infamous "Great Firewall," which censors western websites such as Facebook, Twitter and human-rights blogs, Obama underlined the value of freedom of expression online,

See also: Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/internet-freedom-chart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


"It is so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the Internet and through the media," she said, according to TIME (http://time.com/34314/michelle-obama-defends-free-internet-in-china-speech/). "Because that’s how we discover the truth, that’s how we learn what’s really happening in our communities, in our country and our world." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/22/michelle-obama-internet-freedom-china/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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