4.9.6: Internet
Internet Freedom. Other Information:
The Obama administration has led the world to recognize and defend Internet freedom—the freedom of expression, assembly, and
association online for people everywhere—through coalitions of countries and by empowering individuals with innovative technologies.
The administration has built partnerships to support an Internet that is secure and reliable and that is respectful of U.S.
intellectual property, free flow of information, and privacy. To preserve the Internet as a platform for commerce, debate,
learning, and innovation in the 21st century, we successfully negotiated international Internet policymaking principles, support
the current multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, and oppose the extension of intergovernmental controls over
the Internet. Through all these actions, America is leading again. By responsibly ending the wars, rebalancing our foreign
policy, taking concrete steps to address the greatest threats to our country, cooperating with allies and partners to tackle
common challenges, reinvigorating international institutions, and sustaining and building the core pillars of U.S. leadership,
President Obama and the Democratic Party have worked to ensure that the 21st century remains an American one. That is why
we are stronger abroad, and safer and more secure at home, than we were four years ago. The United States continues to move
forward towards a future of strong and sustained growth. Thanks to the leadership of President Obama and Democrats around
the country, we're fighting back from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression by making investments to create
jobs, grow the middle class, and lay the foundations for an economy that out-educates, out-builds, and out-innovates the rest
of the world. Today, America is both stronger and safer than it was four years ago. Now, we must continue the work we've started
so that the United States of America never fails to meet the tests of our time.
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