WASHINGTON - the United States launched a new initiative that Monday designed to eradicate the Internet with American values such as freedom of expression, saying that cyberspace should remain open, secure and reliable.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a host of other officials unveiled a new national strategy on cyberspace that seeks to enshrine the international open standards for the Internet while protecting the security of networks and strengthening the application of the Act.
"There is no single, simple route to this goal." "We build a global consensus on a common vision for cyberspace", said Clinton.
The new strategy codifies aggressive attempts by the administration of the Obama to define the future of the Internet of competing models such as the one promoted by China, who practice increased control.
Clinton, who on several occasions stressed the centrality of the freedom of the Internet for American foreign policy, said that the purpose was an open global system that both fosters innovation and economic growth while strengthening the security and freedom of expression.
"While the Internet provides new ways for people to exercise their political rights, it also, as we have seen very clearly in the last months, gives the new tools of Governments to the fight against dissent," Clinton said.
Approach of the U.S. has placed on a trajectory of collision with Beijing, but with authoritarian Governments elsewhere - including in the Middle East, where some Governments have sought to use the Internet controls expressions of bloc of political unrest sweeping the region.
To the United States funds programs to develop new technologies and train activists to evade Government controls. But activists accuse the Government of the United States of hypocrisy for emphasizing Internet must also be a "rule of law" - a signal that not allowed violations of information such as the dump WikiLeaks to classified State Department cables is not tolerated.
Secretary of commerce Gary Locke, designated as the next Ambassador to the United States in China, said that he wanted to keep pressing "for advancing these objectives and all of the issues of cyberspace with our Chinese counterparts".
The new U.S. strategy contains a few specificities but presents the priorities include strengthening the capacities of the Internet, improving governance of the Internet and promoting military cooperation issues cyberspace to protect networks against attacks.
New command of U.S. Army Cyber became fully operational last year and strives to prevent attempts to break by more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations that seek to steal some of U.S. 15 000 military computer networks, US officials say.
The Obama administration is also pressing Congress to pass strong cyber security measures to protect the personal information of consumers and the U.S. financial system and electrical network of potentially devastating attacks.
Several cybersecurity bills have limped along to Congress over the past year, despite the attacks high - profile hacker on Nasdaq OMX Group and Sony Corp. Some companies resist what they say is scope prescribed by the Government.
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