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Obama acts on FAC petition against China’s “Great Firewall”

Peter Scheer October 19, 2011

October 19, 2011—The Obama administration on Wednesday said that, using World Trade Organization rules, it was calling on the government of China to answer detailed questions about its censorship of the internet–in particular, the blocking of websites of US-based businesses seeking to tap the vast Chinese consumer market. The announcement, which grows out of an initiative of a free speech nonprofit group, the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), is a significant step in investigating and challenging

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Court rejects national security exemption in FOIA requests

donal brown April 25, 2011

In a rare show of skepticism, a federal district judge found the argument of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) unpersuasive in claiming a national security reason for refusing to disclose records. The judge said the USTR “has not shown it likely that disclosing document 1 would discourage foreign officials from providing information to the United States in the future because those officials would have no basis for concluding that the United

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