Katrina Lantos Swett: “We think that the application of sanctions directed at specific people implicated in human rights and religious freedom…”

I think that it is a very flimsy excuse for not funding technologies that enable vast numbers of people to access the internet freely.

The progress of freedom requires courage, it requires people in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who are willing to put their safety, their well-being on the line.

It offends me that as a result of exercising my right to free speech by writing a book, it has been necessary to take these steps to protect myself from an authoritarian foreign power.

We cannot entirely protect, we can't basically protect people in China or in any other country where they are being brutally repressed.